Don Pettit marked his 70th birthday on April 20 by plunging through the atmosphere in a Russian Soyuz capsule to wrap up a seven-month mission at the International Space Station ... Mercury astronaut ...

America's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit has returned to Earth on his 70th birthday. The Soyuz MS-26 space capsule carrying Pettit and his Russian crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner made a ...

Blue Origin renovated Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for more than $1 billion. Named after astronaut John Glenn ... pilots on board. The capsule is designed to separate ...

He is not, however, the oldest person to have ever flown in orbit - John Glenn ... the space station just over three hours earlier. Picturesque images of the landing showed the small capsule ...

Fresh from space, NASA’s oldest full-time astronaut ... all these little aches and pains and everything heal up.” Mercury astronaut John Glenn was 77 when he returned to orbit on a short ...

But an Associated Press “Today in History” list reminded me that on April 15, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. It was a big deal ... With JFK, all things were ...

He is the second-oldest American astronaut to visit space after John Glenn's famed 1998 mission ... social media ahead of his return. "When our capsule goes thump on those desert flats, I will ...

Fresh from space, NASA’s oldest full-time astronaut ... all these little aches and pains and everything heal up." Mercury astronaut John Glenn was 77 when he returned to orbit on a short shuttle ...