April 19 (UPI) --NASA astronaut Don Pettit will return to Earth ... SpaceX launches Bandwagon-3 mission, European re-entry capsule April 21 (UPI) -- SpaceX launched its Bandwagon-3 mission into ...

set to launch a crew of astronauts around the moon next spring in NASA’s Artemis II mission, is nearly fully assembled in the building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida that was designed ...

But NASA's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling toward Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

That mission drew headlines for its role in paving the way for the NASA astronauts who flew on the infamous Boeing Starliner to return home with the Crew-9 contingent. Up next, the new crew of the ...

Credit: NASA/Bill ... wrote NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 flight engineer Nichole Ayers on the social media network X on Saturday. "It's bittersweet because he had an amazing mission and ...

Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active-duty astronaut ... who spent nearly 1,111 days in orbit over five missions. The U.S. record is held by astronaut Peggy Whitson. She spent 675 days in space ...

Joining them were civil rights advocate Amanda Nguyen, former NASA engineer Aisha ... Blue Origin's Mission NS-31 is the first all-female astronaut crew since 1963. (Photo by Justin Hamel/Getty ...

That mission drew headlines for its role in paving the way for the NASA astronauts who flew on the infamous Boeing Starliner to return home with the Crew-9 contingent. Up next, the new crew of ...