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

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 ...

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 ...

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

“Today at 0420 Moscow time (0120 GMT), the Soyuz MS-26 landing craft with Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Donald (Don) Pettit aboard landed near the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan,” Russia’s ...

A cake, gifts and a low-key family celebration may be how many senior citizens envision their 70th birthday. But NASA's ...

A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has ...

Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit arrived in Kazakhstan after completing a ...

Participants in the search and rescue operation pulled Russian cosmonauts Aleksey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, as well as NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, from the descent module of the Soyuz MS-26 ...

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.