A year isolated in space preps astronaut for mode dinner manners - CNET

It's been a big year for Scott Kelly.

The NASA astronaut has spent the past year on the Inteational Space Station with just a handful of human beings for company. In his time floating through the vast ocean of space, he cleaned up acid pee, took hundreds of photos that he shared over Twitter and conducted more than 400 investigations, like growing lettuce and flowers in zero gravity.

He also offered himself up as a lab rat, so that NASA could measure the effects of zero gravity on his body, and compare the results with parallel experiments conducted on his identical twin brother back on earth.

After more than 300 days in space, Kelly finally landed back on terra firma -- Kazakhstan to be precise -- on March 1. But even an astronaut faces the same problems as countless earth families, especially around the dinner table.

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Just days after retuing from space, Kelly tweeted about his first dinner at a proper dinner table on Earth. We like to imagine the conversation went like this: