Earthbound after a year in space: Scott Kelly finds return to normal life oddly unfamiliar
Scott Kelly’s 340 days aboard the ISS yielded not only physical effects like fluid shifts and balance issues but also a lasting psychological readjustment: weeks of detachment and a sense of watching one’s life from behind the eyes, a “reverse overview effect” that underscores the need to plan postflight transition as longer missions loom, with Artemis II and mars-bound crews likely facing similar challenges.
