(KOIN) — Donald Pettit is gearing up to return to Earth ... The 69-year-old Silverton, Oregon, native is known as NASA‘s oldest active astronaut. Back in September 2024, Pettit marked his ...

Students in Clifton, New Jersey, connected with astronaut Donald Pettit on the International Space Station via amateur radio. Students asked Pettit questions about life in space, including how he ...

Shortly after SpaceX launched the Starship for the ninth time, NASA astronaut Don Pettit shared some shots of earlier ...

A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying American Donald Pettit and Russians Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner landed in Kazakhstan on Sunday. America's oldest serving astronaut has touched down on Earth ...

Veteran astronaut Don Pettit most recently spent five months in space and captured remarkable images. He’s taken nearly a ...

Welcoming them aboard were Soyuz MS-26/72S crewmates Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, along with SpaceX Crew 10 commander Anne McClain, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers ...

Landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan coincides with US astronaut Donald Pettit’s 70th birthday. NASA astronaut Donald Pettit being carried to a medical tent shortly after landing in a Soyuz MS ...

NASA’s Donald Pettit, alongside two Russian cosmonauts ... On Friday, Mr Ovchinin handed over command of the ISS to Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi in a change of command ceremony.

But NASA's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian ... landing craft with Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Donald (Don) Pettit aboard landed near the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan ...