Cake, gifts and a low-key family celebration may be how many senior citizens picture their 70th birthday. But NASA’s oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards ...

Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active astronaut, marked his 70th birthday by landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan after 220 days in ...

NASA's oldest active astronaut is preparing to come home this week. Don Pettit (69) will depart from the International Space ...

SpaceX kicked off 2025 by continuing its record-breaking pace of Falcon 9 launches while also setting new firsts with its ...

Katy Perry's gesture after her Blue Origin trip was seen as an 'insult' to Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore, who were stuck ...

Explore safety protocols in human spaceflight, from launch to reentry, ensuring astronaut safety during unpredictable missions.

NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin have been forced to return to Earth in "ballistic descent mode" after their Soyuz rocket's booster malfunctioned shortly after ...