Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, returned to Earth on Saturday night from the International Space Station. Pettit, who turned 70 on Sunday, landed at 9:20 ...

Mr. Pettit is not even the oldest person to spend time at the International Space Station. A private astronaut, Larry Connor, was 72 years old when he spent two weeks there in 2022 as part of a ...

In a remarkable coincidence, NASA astronaut Don Pettit will mark his 70th birthday with a fiery reentry through Earth's atmosphere on Saturday, capping off his fourth mission to space, the agency ...