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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 ...
NASA's oldest full-time astronaut is back home and doing well a week after wrapping up a seven-month space mission.
On April 28, 2001, the world's first space tourist hitched a ride to the International Space Station on a Russian Soyuz ...
Not many people celebrate their birthday by burning a fiery arc through the atmosphere, pulling 4.4gs in freefall back to ...
Smallspace, the HaMeX-organised model show for all things space, science fiction and fantasy returns to Hanslope, ...
Pettit even got to celebrate his birthday twice. Due to the time zone difference, it was still April 20 when Pettit flew back ...
Auroras are natural light displays that occur when charged particles from the sun interact with Earth’s magnetic field and ...
A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and one American from the International Space Station landed Sunday in Kazakhstan, ...
HOUSTON—Russia's Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft with NASA astronaut Don Pettit and cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner ...
NASA’s oldest serving astronaut returned to Earth on Saturday following a 7-month mission on board the International Space Station (ISS). Don Pettit marked his 70th birthday with a special homecoming, ...
Taking to Twitter to confirm the 70-year-old's safe return to Earth, NASA wrote: "Home sweet Houston. @NASA_Astronauts Don ...
A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut has successfully returned to Earth. According ...