Following a seven-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two Russian ...

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

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

A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russian cosmonauts and one American astronaut safely landed Sunday in Kazakhstan, concluding a ...

Astronauts repaired and upgraded NASA's Hubble Space Telescope over the course of five servicing missions from 1993 to 2009.

But NASA's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling toward Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up ...

After over seven months in orbit, astronauts Don Pettit, Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner have returned to Earth aboard the ...

Auroras are natural light displays that occur when charged particles from the sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field and ...

NASA’s oldest serving astronaut returned to Earth on Saturday following a 7-month mission on board the International Space Station (ISS). Don Pettit marked his 70th birthday with a special homecoming, ...

Donald R. Pettit, fondly known as Don Pettit, was selected by NASA in 1966. The oldest serving NASA astronaut, Don Pettit ...

The Oldest and veteran astronaut reached home with two russian cosmonauts on April 20 after working for seven months after his landing.

A cake, gifts and a low-key family celebration may be how many senior citizens envision their 70th birthday. But NASA's ...