Launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, the spacecraft known as Kosmos 482 was part of a series of missions bound for Venus.

A half-ton spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union 53 years ago is expected to fall back to Earth this weekend.

This image provided by NASA shows astronaut Don Pettit being carried to a medical tent shortly after he, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner landed in their Soyuz MS-26 ...

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Returning to Earth has always been "a significant challenge" for his body, Pettit said from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. "I didn't look too good because I didn't feel too good," he said ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Fresh from space, NASA’s oldest full-time astronaut said Monday that weightlessness made him feel decades younger, with everyday aches and pains vanishing.