"I was right in the middle of emptying the contents of my stomach onto the steppes of Kazakhstan," Pettit recalled ...

NASA's oldest full-time astronaut is back home and doing well a week after wrapping up a seven-month space mission.

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NASA’s oldest astronaut has returned to his home planet after spending the days leading up his 70th birthday off-world.

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NASA astronaut Donald R. Pettit, a record holder for the longest time spent in space, redefined space exploration, zero ...

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

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Born in Oregon, US, on April 20, 1955, Donald R Pettit holds a chemical engineering degree from Oregon State University as well as a doctorate in the same field from the University of Arizona. Story ...

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 ...

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

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