Cosmonauts will join the veteran spacefarer's return after 220 days in space. In a remarkable coincidence, NASA astronaut Don Pettit will mark his 70th birthday with a fiery reentry through Earth ...

Fresh from space, NASA’s oldest full-time astronaut said Monday that weightlessness made him feel decades younger, with everyday aches and pains vanishing. Don Pettit marked his 70th birthday on ...

Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA's oldest active astronaut has redefined traveling "home" for your birthday, landing from the International Space Station on the same day that he turned 70.

Following a seven-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two Russian cosmonauts landed safely in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz spacecraft on Sunday ...

April 20 (UPI) --Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday as he returned to Earth from a seven-month stay at the International Space Station, during which he completed ...

But NASA astronaut Don Pettit isn't like most people ... a unique way for the 29-year space veteran to celebrate his 70th birthday. Pettit even got to celebrate his birthday twice.

This image provided by NASA shows astronaut Don Pettit being carried to a medical tent shortly after he, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner landed in their Soyuz MS-26 ...

NASA's Oldest Astronaut Felt the Decades Melt Away in Space Before Returning on His 70th Birthday CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Fresh from space, NASA’s oldest full-time astronaut said Monday ...