Don Pettit, Nasa's oldest active-duty astronaut, safely returned to Earth, concluding a 220-day mission aboard the ...

NASA’s oldest astronaut has returned to his home planet after spending the days leading up his 70th birthday off-world.

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

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

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But NASA's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while ... GMT), the Soyuz MS-26 landing craft with ...

After a 220-day mission covering over 93.3 million miles, astronaut Donald Pettit and cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan ...

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 ...

“Today at 0420 Moscow time, the Soyuz MS-26 landing craft with Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Donald Pettit aboard landed near the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan,” Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said.

NASA’s Donald Pettit, alongside two Russian cosmonauts ... On Friday, Mr Ovchinin handed over command of the ISS to Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi in a change of command ceremony.

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