Don Pettit, NASA’s oldest active astronaut, returned to Earth on April 20, the day he turned 70 years old. That concluded his fourth trip to space — a busy 220 days at the International Space ...

Pettit served as NASA Science Officer for Expedition 6 in 2003, operated the robotic arm for STS-126 in 2008 and served as a ...

Pettit, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, departed the ISS on Saturday at 5:57 p.m. ET on board a Soyuz spacecraft before making a parachute-assisted landing at 9:20 ...

NASA's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards the Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) NASA's oldest active astronaut, Don Pettit, returned to Earth on his 70th birthday after a seven-month mission aboard the ISS, completing 220 days in space and ...

NASA’s oldest active astronaut, Don Pettit, has returned safely to Earth after a seven-month mission aboard the ISS, landing in Kazakhstan on his 70th birthday. ... Donald Roy Pettit, ...

April 20 (UPI) --Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday as he returned to Earth from a seven-month stay at the International Space Station, during which he completed ...

NASA astronaut Donald Pettit being carried to a medical tent shortly after landing in a Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft with Russian astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan ...

Donald R. Pettit, fondly known as Don Pettit, was selected by NASA in 1966. The oldest serving NASA astronaut, Don Pettit holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has shared a new time-lapse video showing some of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites streaking across space. Other lines of light appearing in the 18-second clip captured ...