Don Pettit arrived in Space City on Sunday (April 20), which happened to be his 70th birthday.

NASA’s oldest serving astronaut returned to Earth on Saturday following a 7-month mission on board the International Space ...

Dr. James Newman, a former NASA astronaut, reflects on his career and the future of space travel during a visit to the Naval ...

Don Pettit's birthday "party" brought together Russian recovery teams in Kazakhstan, where it was April 20 (his birthdate).

Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday as he returned to Earth from a seven-month stay at the ...

April 21 (UPI) -- NASA launched its latest cargo run to the International Space Station early Monday morning.

A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russian cosmonauts and one American astronaut safely landed Sunday in Kazakhstan, concluding a ...

President Donald Trump’s nominee to run NASA will tell US senators the agency’s priority will be to send US astronauts to ...

Astronaut Don Pettit, who has been at the International Space Station since September, is set to land Saturday in Kazakhstan ...

Astronaut Don Pettit, who has been at the International Space Station since September, is set to land Saturday in Kazakhstan ...

Unsurprisingly, the media has focused on Pettit's age, as the astronaut turned 70 on the very day he returned to Earth. At ...

After over seven months in orbit, astronauts Don Pettit, Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner have returned to Earth aboard the ...