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 ...

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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 ...

Donald Pettit is gearing up to return to Earth after spending several months on the International Space Station.

A Russian Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut has returned to Earth as the International Space Station’s Expedition 72 crew end their seven-month research ...

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

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

A Soyuz capsule carrying the American and two Russian cosmonauts landed in Kazakhstan on Sunday, the day of Pettit’s milestone birthday. “Today at 0420 Moscow time, the Soyuz MS-26 landing craft with ...

The crew of the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft safely returned to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) Sunday ...

Here's everything you need to know about the space cadet. NASA's website explains that Dr Donald Pettit was selected to work for the association in 1996. The Oregon-born astronaut has a Bachelor ...