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| NASA's oldest active astronaut lands with space station crewmates on his 70th birthday |
| 2025-04-20 |
| [Space.com] NASA's oldest active astronaut has redefined traveling "home" for your birthday, landing from the International Space Station on the same day that he turned 70. Don Pettit touched down on Saturday (April 19) with his Soyuz MS-26 crewmates, Aleksey Ovchinin, 53, and Ivan Vagner, 39. The U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts reached the ground in Kazakhstan at 9:20 p.m. EDT (0120 GMT or 6:20 a.m. local time April 20), seven months after they left Earth aboard the same spacecraft. Pettit was born on April 20, 1955, in Silverton, Oregon, but said that the feeling of being home is relative to where you have been. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #2 So is Shatner. seven months after they left Earth |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-04-20 23:35 |
| #1 Gale King is older |
| Posted by: Airandee 2025-04-20 17:26 |