"I was right in the middle of emptying the contents of my stomach onto the steppes of Kazakhstan," Pettit recalled ...

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Don Pettit arrived in Space City on Sunday (April 20), which happened to be his 70th birthday.

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

Pettit landed near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on April 20, the day he turned 70 — alongside Russian crewmates Alexei Ovchinin ...

The crew of the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft safely returned to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) Sunday morning, the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said on its website.

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

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 ...

(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 reported on ...