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 ...

Space. It’s the final frontier, you know. This last week saw some big space news, says comedian and writer Steve N Allen.

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

America's oldest serving astronaut has touched down on Earth on his 70th birthday. NASA astronaut Donald Pettit and two Russian cosmonauts had been on a seven-month mission to the International Space ...

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