Don Pettit/NASA Supported by By Kenneth Chang Don Pettit, NASA’s oldest active astronaut, returned to Earth on April 20, the day he turned 70 years old. That concluded his fourth trip to space ...

Cosmonauts will join the veteran spacefarer's return after 220 days in space. In a remarkable coincidence, NASA astronaut Don Pettit will mark his 70th birthday with a fiery reentry through Earth ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured SpaceX Starlink satellites swarming in the distance in an amazing time-lapse captured from ...

Update: Don Pettit and crew made a safe, parachute-assisted landing at 9:20 p.m. Saturday, April 19 (6:20 a.m. on Sunday, April 20, Kazakhstan time), southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan ...

Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active-duty astronaut, celebrated his 70th birthday with two cosmonaut crewmates overnight Saturday, undocking from the International Space Station and plunging back to ...

NASA's Don Pettit has been back on Earth for a couple of months but he's still got some amazing photos to share ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Astronauts aboard the space station have a unique view of Earth, and a time-lapse by NASA's Jonny Kim shows off its beauty.