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

Don Petit, along with two Russian cosmonauts, touched down in Kazakhstan Saturday evening after a 220-day mission abroad the ...

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Unsurprisingly, the media has focused on Pettit's age, as the astronaut turned 70 on the very day he returned to Earth. At ...

Pettit, along with Russian astronauts Alexei Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, touched down near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.