--- title: Scott Kelly Year in Space: Stephen Colbert Pop Culture Catch Up description: The NASA astronaut is back on Earth after 340 days canonical: https://time.com/4247676/stephen-colbert-scott-kelly-year-in-space/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-04T15:57:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:44.003Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Recaps Everything That Happened While Scott Kelly Was in Space og:description: The NASA astronaut is back on Earth after 340 days og:url: https://time.com/4247676/stephen-colbert-scott-kelly-year-in-space/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen Colbert Recaps Everything That Happened While Scott Kelly Was in Space twitter:description: The NASA astronaut is back on Earth after 340 days twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Stephen Colbert Recap Everything That Happened While Scott Kelly Was in Space by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 4, 2016 3:57 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 4, 2016 3:57 PM UTC NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is [back on Earth](http://time.com/4244421/scott-kelly-year-in-space-land-soyuz/) after a record 340 days in space — which means he has an entire year of news and pop culture to catch up on. Luckily, Stephen Colbert is here to help. On Thursday’s episode of _The Late Show_, Colbert offered Kelly a quick recap on everything he’d missed. He mostly sticks to celebrity gossip and Internet phenomena. “Thanks to Taylor Swift, we have now learned that girls travel in what are called squads,” Colbert explains. He also demonstrates the [Whip/Nae Nae](http://time.com/4034862/whip-nae-nae-gym-class/) dance that all the kids have been doing, but added, “the important thing to know is now that I have done it, they have stopped doing it.” He also briefly mentions politics: “Of course there is a presidential race this year, and it’s … it’s going good. And, uh, don’t look it up.” Colbert’s pop culture wrap-up is _almost_ as good as [Liz Lemon’s ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STDb9Fyd8AU&feature=youtu.be)from 2012, though she struggled to fit everything in. (“Am I supposed to just scratch the surface of Channing Tatum’s meteoric rise?”) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4247676/stephen-colbert-scott-kelly-year-in-space/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4247676/stephen-colbert-scott-kelly-year-in-space/"},"headline":"Watch Stephen Colbert Recap Everything That Happened While Scott Kelly Was in Space","datePublished":"2016-03-04T15:57:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:44.003Z","description":"\"Thanks to Taylor Swift, we have now learned that girls travel in what are called squads\"","url":"https://time.com/4247676/stephen-colbert-scott-kelly-year-in-space/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4247676/stephen-colbert-scott-kelly-year-in-space/","name":"Watch Stephen Colbert Recap Everything That Happened While Scott Kelly Was in Space"}}]}] ```