America's oldest serving astronaut Dan Pettit has returned to Earth on his 70th birthday. The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying ...

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NASA's astronaut Don Pettit's return marked the end of a seven-month mission aboard the ISS alongside two Russian cosmonauts.

Taking to Twitter to confirm the 70-year-old's safe return to Earth, NASA wrote: "Home sweet Houston. @NASA_Astronauts Don ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit will return to Earth from the International Space Station Saturday, alongside his two Russian ...

Pettit and his crewmates orbited the Earth 3,520 times and completed a ... He is not, however, the oldest person to have ever flown in orbit - John Glenn, who died in 2016, flew on a NASA mission ...

They spent 220 days on the (ISS), orbiting the Earth 3,520 times and it means Don has now spent a total of 590 days in space, over four missions. Amazingly, he is not the oldest person to fly in ...

Don Pettit has now spent a total of 590 days in space during his four missions [Nasa via Getty Images] 33,400 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?

However, Pettit does not hold the record for the oldest person to have flown in space ... will undergo a period of re-acclimatization to Earth's gravity. Afterward, Pettit will be flown to ...

Still, he is not the oldest person to fly in orbit - that record ... finally returned to Earth after spending more than nine months on board the ISS - instead of the initially planned just eight ...