NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two cosmonaut colleagues will return to Earth this evening (April 19), and you can watch their homecoming live.

On July 20, 1969, the world watched on as the US made space history with its ambitious Apollo 11 mission. Neil Armstrong and ...

A veteran NASA astronaut who flew to orbit more than seven months ago with two Russians is preparing to return to Earth. Don Pettit, who arrived Sept. 11, 2024 for his third-ever stint at the ...

For NASA’s Jessica Meir, who will be returning to Earth this week after originally arriving on the ISS way back in September of last year, the adjustment will be unlike anything NASA astronauts ...

April 19 (UPI) --NASA astronaut Don Pettit will return to Earth from the International Space Station Saturday, alongside his two Russian cosmonaut colleagues. Pettit, Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan ...

Three Chinese astronauts have landed back on Earth after six months on China’s space station. The crew’s landing module came ...

"I was right in the middle of emptying the contents of my stomach onto the steppes of Kazakhstan," Pettit recalled Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Astronaut Don Pettit is opening up about his return ...

The American astronaut departed the ISS on Friday with Aleksey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. Shortly before his departure from the space station some 250 miles above Earth, Pettit mused about what it ...

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 ...

In 1970, in fact, one astronaut on a moon mission got in a pickle when he discovered he forgot to file his taxes before leaving Earth, which we'll talk more about below. Here we have very general ...

A long-exposure photograph of the Roscosmos segment of the International Space Station, with the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft docked above Earth’s atmospheric glow. | Credit: NASA NASA astronaut Don ...

Astronaut Don Pettit is opening up about his return to Earth. Pettit, NASA's oldest active astronaut, recently returned from a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station ...