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

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

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

"I was right in the middle of emptying the contents of my stomach onto the steppes of Kazakhstan," Pettit recalled Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Astronaut Don Pettit is opening up about his return ...

Don Pettit has returned to Earth after a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station, wrapping up a journey ...

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 ...

Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday as he returned to Earth from a seven-month stay at the ...

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 ...

Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active astronaut, returns to Earth at 70 after 220 days in orbit, marking over 590 total days in space.

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 ...

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

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