Don Pettit's birthday "party" brought together Russian recovery teams in Kazakhstan, where it was April 20 (his birthdate).

Don Pettit arrived in Space City on Sunday (April 20), which happened to be his 70th birthday.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner successfully departed the International ...

April 21 (UPI) -- NASA launched its latest cargo run to the International Space Station early Monday morning.

A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russian cosmonauts and one American astronaut safely landed Sunday in Kazakhstan, concluding a ...

A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russian cosmonauts and one American astronaut safely landed Sunday in Kazakhstan, concluding a ...

Astronaut Don Pettit, who has been at the International Space Station since September, is set to land Saturday in Kazakhstan ...

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 local ...

Nasa astronaut Don Pettit returned to Earth from the International Space Station – coincidentally on his 70th birthday – aboard the Russian Suyoz spacecraft early on Sunday morning.

Unsurprisingly, the media has focused on Pettit's age, as the astronaut turned 70 on the very day he returned to Earth. At ...

But NASA's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling toward Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up ...

Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active astronaut, marked his 70th birthday by landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan after 220 days in space.