PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Donald Pettit is gearing up to return to Earth after spending several months on the International Space Station. The 69-year-old Silverton, Oregon, native is known as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here's everything you need to know about the space cadet. NASA's website explains that Dr Donald Pettit was selected to work for the association in 1996. The Oregon-born astronaut has a Bachelor ...

A Soyuz capsule carrying the American and two Russian cosmonauts landed in Kazakhstan on Sunday, the day of Pettit’s milestone birthday. “Today at 0420 Moscow time, the Soyuz MS-26 landing craft with ...

NASA astronaut and Oregon State University alumnus Donald Pettit, who spent almost six months aboard the International Space Station after the space shuttle Columbia tragedy, will be the keynote ...

Don Pettit brought a photographer’s eye to orbit, capturing the artistry of the cosmos and our planet. In photos Don Pettit brought a photographer’s eye to orbit, capturing the artistry of the ...