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NASA's oldest active astronaut is someone who many people have never heard about, but this 70-year-old is truly inspiring.
NASA's oldest active astronaut felt as sick as he looked shortly after returning to Earth this month. Don Pettit and two cosmonaut colleagues came home aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on April 19, ...
The details in this photograph include the airglow of the atmosphere dividing Earth from space — yellow-green at an altitude of 75 miles and a faint reddish hue 250 miles above ...
"I love being in space," he said. "When you're sleeping, you're just floating, and your body, all those little aches and ...
The NY Times has a nice feature on NASA astronaut Don Pettit’s photography from his latest stay in space, a 220-day missio ...
"I was right in the middle of emptying the contents of my stomach onto the steppes of Kazakhstan," Pettit recalled Astronaut Don Pettit is opening up about his return to Earth. Pettit, NASA's oldest ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Fresh from space, NASA’s oldest full-time astronaut said Monday that weightlessness made him feel decades younger, with everyday aches and pains vanishing. Don Pettit marked his ...
Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active-duty astronaut, celebrated his 70th birthday with two cosmonaut crewmates overnight Saturday, undocking from the International Space Station and plunging back to ...
NASA's oldest active astronaut has returned home to Houston after his latest stint in orbit. Don Pettit arrived in Space City on Sunday (April 20), which happened to be his 70th birthday.
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 ...
On the eve of his 70th birthday, Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active-duty astronaut, and two cosmonaut crewmates packed up for a fiery plunge back to Earth to close out a 220-day expedition to the ...