NASA’s oldest serving astronaut returned to Earth on Saturday following a 7-month mission on board the International Space ...

Astronaut Don Pettit, who has been at the International Space Station since September, is set to land Saturday in Kazakhstan ...

Generating window-rattling sonic booms in the cloudless predawn air, NASA and SpaceX teamed up Monday, April 21, to launch a ...

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, Don Pettit, has returned safely to Earth after a seven-month mission aboard the ISS, landing ...

Holding a daisy to the sky, songstress Katy Perry emerged from a Blue Origin space shuttle before falling to her knees and ...

His second mission, STS-126 in 2008, was a short-duration mission aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour ... Roscosmos confirmed that the parachute-assisted landing was smooth and trouble-free, marking ...

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 Apollo 13 mission, where disaster struck and an oxygen tank exploded, we take a look at some of the most harrowing space-related accidents ...

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, orbiting the earth once before landing ...

In 2008, Pettit was part of a Space Shuttle mission delivering equipment ... s Rassvet module at 5:57 p.m. ET, heading for a parachute-assisted landing at 9:20 p.m. in a remote area of Kazakhstan.