With Expedition 73 now underway, the International Space Station is hosting seven crewmembers again. Thursday saw the ...

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A space probe called Kosmos 482 sent to explore Venus by the U.S.S.R. in 1972 but marooned in Earth orbit ever since is about ...

Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active astronaut, addressed his eventful return to Earth. Shortly after the spacecraft touched down ...

The lander section of the Kosmos 482 probe was launched in 1972 and designed to survive on Venus. Now it's due a fiery ...

NASA's oldest full-time astronaut is back home and doing well a week after wrapping up a seven-month space mission.

The astronaut said that he didn't look good because he "didn't feel too good" after throwing up when the spacecraft touched down. "I didn't look too good because I didn't feel too good. I was right in ...

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"I didn't look too good because I didn't feel too good," Pettit told reporters during a press conference from NASA's Johnson ...

"I love being in space," he said. "When you're sleeping, you're just floating, and your body, all those little aches and ...