NASA astronaut Don Pettit celebrates his 70th birthday with a spectacular return from the International Space Station after 220 ... Expedition 72 crew members: NASA astronaut Don Pettit, left, ...

The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan with Expedition 72 NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and ...

Expedition 72 crew members: NASA astronaut Don Pettit, left, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner, right, meet with NASA and Roscosmos managers prior to boarding the Soyuz MS ...

As an Expedition 71/72 flight engineer, Pettit orbited Earth 3,520 times and traveled more than 93.3 million miles before returning aboard a Russian-made Soyuz spacecraft on his 70th birthday.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit, an energetic tinkerer and photographer, used his off-duty time on the International Space Station ...

WASHINGTON, April 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA astronaut Don Pettit returned to Earth Saturday, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, concluding a seven-month science ...

NASA's veteran astronaut Don Pettit conducted hundreds of hours of research and ... As an Expedition 71/72 flight engineer, Pettit orbited Earth 3,520 times and traveled more than 93.3 ...

NASA's veteran astronaut Don Pettit conducted hundreds of hours of research and captured over half a million ... and you feel like you're 30 years old again," the 70-year-old veteran astronaut said.

"You're floating, and your body, all these little aches and pains, and everything heal up, and you feel like you're 30 years old again," the 70-year-old veteran astronaut said.