Cake, gifts and a low-key family celebration may be how many senior citizens picture their 70th birthday. But NASA’s oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards ...

Don Pettit was accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner on the Soyuz MS-26 capsule, which ...

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