NASA's oldest active astronaut has returned home to Houston after his latest stint in orbit. Don Pettit arrived in Space City on Sunday (April 20), which happened to be his 70th birthday.

Astronaut Don Pettit being carried to a medical tent shortly after landing in Kazakhstan. NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA’s oldest serving astronaut returned to Earth on Saturday following a 7-month ...

But NASA's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards the Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

As President Donald Trump’s pick to be NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman is going to have to navigate Washington politics, budget constraints and a looming fight over the future of the space ...

NASA is making final preparations for its first spacewalk since January. It’ll also be the first all-female spacewalk since November 2023 and only the fifth in NASA’s history. Astronauts Anne ...

Cake, gifts and a low-key family celebration may be how many senior citizens picture their 70th birthday. But NASA's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling ...

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Its large body features handrails for astronauts to perform maintenance and modular components to facilitate upgrades with the evolution of technology. This allowed NASA to design and plan fixes ...