SEATTLE, Wash - Washington's most recognizable manmade landmark celebrates a milestone Monday: 63 years ago, was the Space Needle's opening day. According to SpaceNeedle.com, it was conceived in ...

Following a seven-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two Russian cosmonauts landed safely in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz spacecraft on Sunday ...

Nasa astronaut Don Pettit returned to Earth from the International Space Station – coincidentally on his 70th birthday – aboard the Russian Suyoz spacecraft early on Sunday morning. The Soyuz MS-26 ...

Nasa astronaut Don Pettit returned to Earth from the International Space Station – coincidentally on his 70th birthday – aboard the Russian Suyoz spacecraft early on Sunday morning.

The trio returned after spending 220 days in space and orbiting the Earth 3,520 times, Nasa said in a statement. They will spend time in the recovery staging city of Karaganda, Kazakhstan ...

Pettit celebrates his 70th birthday the same day as their return. Donald Pettit’s fourth spaceflight, bringing his career total to 590 days in orbit. Alexey Ovchinin’s fourth spaceflight, now totaling ...

As the International Space Station soared 257 miles above Lake Michigan, NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit captured this long-exposure photograph of city lights streaking ...

the day of Pettit’s milestone birthday. “Today at 0420 Moscow time (0120 GMT), the Soyuz MS-26 landing craft with Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Donald (Don) Pettit aboard landed near the Kazakh ...