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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...