HOUSTON -- Russia's Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft with NASA astronaut Don Pettit and cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner departed the International Space Station (ISS) for a parachute assisted landing ...

Don Pettit is not the oldest Nasa astronaut to ever go into space, but he is the oldest currently serving. At four years past ...

Dr Dinesh C. Sharma uses two broad themes in his book—the ISRO story and Indians in space, with special focus on astronauts ...

Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active astronaut, marked his 70th birthday by landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan after 220 days in ...