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astronaut scott kelly returned to earth last week after a record-breaking 340 days spent living and working in space aboard the International Space Station while he was up there he spent the majority of his time conducting experiments taking pictures and being interviewed so here are three important things we learn from Scott Kelly's historic time and space number one you grow taller in space Scott Kelly was two inches taller when he came back down to earth Scott Kelly spine elongated during his time in zero gravity there are simply no gravity to push you onto the ground so as a result your spine lengthens and you get taller Scott was back to his normal height after only two days of being back on planet Earth number two you can grow lettuce and plants in space and make a pretty mean salad the ISS crew grew a small garden in space using the plant growth facility known as veggie which was provided to the ISS by the orbital technologies corporation scott kelly and members of the ISS expedition 44 enjoyed a solid completely grown in space which was the first time that's ever happened and they reported that it tasted like arugula number 3 future space missions and spacecraft will be monitored controlled and repaired by small robotic satellites scott kelly and crew conducted multiple experiments using tiny satellites known as spheres or synchronized position hold engage reorient experimental satellites that will someday be used to monitor the space station make repairs outside of the space station and capture and control docking refueling and resupply missions other types of small mini satellites were deployed from the ISS they will be used for monitoring climate change in deforestation on earth and are much more cost-effective than larger more expensive satellites currently orbiting our planet check out more of craves coverage of Scott Kelly's historical trip into space at krave cnet com make sure you check out crave at crave Dina calm you can follow cream on Twitter at crave and this week's crave giveaway is the real juice portable charger with built in cable the real juice 5x holds enough power to charge a smartphone five times and the cords retractable go to the blog and enter to win you