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Four NASA astronauts who recently returned to Earth from a mission aboard the International Space Station will take part this ...
NASA's oldest active astronaut is someone who many people have never heard about, but this 70-year-old is truly inspiring.
NASA's oldest active astronaut felt as sick as he looked shortly after returning to Earth this month. Don Pettit and two cosmonaut colleagues came home aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on April 19, ...
The details in this photograph include the airglow of the atmosphere dividing Earth from space — yellow-green at an altitude of 75 miles and a faint reddish hue 250 miles above ...
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, Nick Hague, and Don Pettit show off their 'Proud to be American' socks in a ...
The NY Times has a nice feature on NASA astronaut Don Pettit’s photography from his latest stay in space, a 220-day missio ...
Don Pettit, NASA's oldest astronaut, returned from his latest mission in space on April 20th, the day he turned 70 years old.
"I love being in space," he said. "When you're sleeping, you're just floating, and your body, all those little aches and ...
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.
"I was right in the middle of emptying the contents of my stomach onto the steppes of Kazakhstan," Pettit recalled Astronaut Don Pettit is opening up about his return to Earth. Pettit, NASA's oldest ...
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 ...