Photo: Mark Felix/AFP/Getty Images Hugs with family, grilled cheese and sneaking in a run—the NASA astronauts who were posted up in orbit for months are getting used to life back on Earth.

A veteran NASA astronaut who flew to orbit more than seven months ago with two Russians is preparing to return to Earth. Don Pettit, who arrived Sept. 11, 2024 for his third-ever stint at the ...

Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA’s latest call for proposals to conduct private astronaut missions to the International Space Station opens the door to having those missions commanded by someone ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit gestures as he is carried to a medical tent shortly after landing in a Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner near the town of ...

NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars in ... on Mars will inform the design of future spacesuits for the first astronauts on the red planet. "This is one of the forward-looking aspects of ...

NASA's LunaRecycle Challenge, offering a $3 million prize, seeks innovative solutions to transform the 96 bags of human waste left on the Moon by Apollo missions into valuable resources like water ...

But NASA’s oldest serving astronaut, Don Pettit, became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards Earth in a spacecraft, concluding a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station.

Astronaut Don Pettit being carried to a medical tent shortly after landing in Kazakhstan. NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA’s oldest serving astronaut returned to Earth on Saturday following a 7-month ...

April 20 (UPI) --Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday as he returned to Earth from a seven-month stay at the International Space Station, during which he completed ...

NASA astronaut and Russian crewmates arrive at the International Space Station NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and two Russian crewmates took off from the Russia-leased Baikonur facility in Kazakhstan in ...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth earlier this month after unexpectedly spending nine months on the International Space Station Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at ...

The NASA astronaut is one of the four members of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), agency officials announced on Thursday (March 27). Cardman will command Crew-11 ...