Oldest serving US astronaut returns to Earth on 70th birthday
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on April 20, 2025
America's oldest serving astronaut Dan Pettit has returned to Earth on his 70th birthday.
The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Pettit and his Russian crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner made a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan's steppe at 06:20 local time (01:20 GMT) on Sunday.
They spent 220 days on board the International Space Station (ISS), orbiting the Earth 3,520 times, the US space agency Nasa said.
