NASA astronaut Don Pettit to return from ISS on 70th birthday. Cosmonauts will join the veteran spacefarer's return after 220 days in space. By Doc Louallen. April 18, 2025, 2:07 PM. 1:00.

One of Pettit’s photos, which you can see above, was a 15-second time exposure. He says his tracker completes a rotation ...

Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active astronaut, marked his 70th birthday by landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan after 220 days in space. ... "The ISS program is monitoring this closely, ...

Pettit, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, departed the ISS on Saturday at 5:57 p.m. ET on board a Soyuz spacecraft before making a parachute-assisted landing at 9:20 ...

Shortly after SpaceX launched the Starship for the ninth time, NASA astronaut Don Pettit shared some shots of earlier Starship tests that he captured from space.

On Wednesday, astronaut Don Pettit -- who is also a noted photographer and inventor of the zero-G coffee cup -- took a gorgeous time-lapse video of the ISS as it flew over an aurora. The video ...

In a remarkable coincidence, NASA astronaut Don Pettit will mark his 70th birthday with a fiery reentry through Earth's atmosphere on Saturday, capping off his fourth mission to space, the agency ...

NEW YORK — In a remarkable coincidence, NASA astronaut Don Pettit will mark his 70th birthday with a fiery reentry through Earth's atmosphere on Saturday, capping off his fourth mission to space ...