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Nasa's oldest astronaut returns to Earth on 70th
The Star
|April 22, 2025
CAKE, gifts and a low-key family celebration may be how many senior citizens picture their 70th birthday.
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But Nasa’s oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards the Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
A Soyuz capsule carrying the American and two Russian cosmonauts landed in Kazakhstan at the weekend, the day of Pettit’s milestone birthday.
“Today at 0420 Moscow time (0120 GMT), the Soyuz MS-26 landing craft with Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Donald (Don) Pettit aboard landed near the Kazakh town of Zhez-kazgan,” Russia's space agency Roscosmos said.
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