NASA Astronaut Don Pettit Returns to Earth on 70th Birthday After ISS Mission

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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — 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 p.m. ET in a Soyuz spacecraft with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, after a seven-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory. The scientist invented the first object paten…

Nasa’s oldest serving astronaut lands safely back on Earth on his 70th birthday

Nasa’s oldest serving astronaut turned 70 as he hurtled back to Earth yesterday after a seven-month mission in space.

Who is Don Pettit? NASA’s 70-year-old ‘Space Grandpa’ who just came home after 220 days in orbit

NASA’s oldest active astronaut, Don Pettit, has returned safely to Earth after a seven-month mission aboard the ISS, landing in Kazakhstan on his 70th birthday. With this fourth spaceflight, Pettit’s total time in space now exceeds 590 days—the most by any American male astronaut.

NASA astronaut lands back on Earth on his 70th birthday

NASA's oldest serving astronaut has landed safely back on Earth following a seven-month orbital mission.

NASA's oldest astronaut Don Pettit braves dangerous cosmic journey on 70th birthday

The astronauts touched down in a remote region south-east of Zhezkazgan in Kazakhstan after undocking from the space station around three hours earlier. Trending | SCIENCE & TECH

On his 70th birthday, an American astronaut returning to Earth with two Russian cosmonauts.