Although it might seem paradoxical, many people return from a long trip in need of a vacation to recover from their time away.
Imagine, then, if your trip had lasted a year, and you weren’t just out of town but out of this world. Literally.
That’s the reality that faced NASA Commander Scott Kelly, a UT graduate, when he returned to Earth from his one-year mission aboard the International Space Station late Tuesday. He completed studies at the UT Space Institute, a part of UT’s College of Engineering.