In a touching coincidence of timing, NASA astronaut Donald Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday by returning to Earth after a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Alongside ...

A Russian Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut has returned to Earth as the International ...

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NASA's oldest astronaut ended up in Scotland just a few hours after returning from 220 days in space. Don Pettit and his team ...

Donald R. Pettit, fondly known as Don Pettit, was selected by NASA in 1966. The oldest serving NASA astronaut, Don Pettit ...

"Its deorbiting and descent to Earth were normal," the agency said in a post on the Telegram messaging app. It added that the ...

Solar winds are the ions continuously streaming from the sun's surface. Donald Pettit was selected by the NASA in 1996. He ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Donald Pettit is gearing up to return to Earth after spending several months on the International Space Station. The 69-year-old Silverton, Oregon, native is known as ...

NASA’s oldest active astronaut, Don Pettit, has returned safely to Earth after a seven-month mission aboard the ISS, landing ...

The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, along with NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, successfully returned to Earth, according to the Russian space ...

A Soyuz capsule carrying the American and two Russian cosmonauts landed in Kazakhstan on Sunday, the day of Pettit’s milestone birthday. “Today at 0420 Moscow time, the Soyuz MS-26 landing craft with ...

April 20 (Reuters) - A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has returned to Earth, Russia's Roscosmos space agency ...