Landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan coincides with US astronaut Donald Pettit’s 70th birthday. NASA astronaut Donald Pettit being carried to a medical tent shortly after landing in a Soyuz MS ...

With three space missions under his belt — and more than a year aboard the International Space Station — NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has experienced something that very few humans have.

NASA’s Donald Pettit, alongside two Russian cosmonauts, had spent the last seven months on a missing to the International Space Station (ISS). According to Russian space agency Roscosmos, the Soyuz MS ...

“Today at 0420 Moscow time (0120 GMT), the Soyuz MS-26 landing craft with Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Donald (Don) Pettit aboard landed near the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan,” a statement ...

A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has returned to Earth, Russia's Roscosmos space agency reported on Sunday.