Astronaut Don Pettit after his arrival back on Earth - Bill Ingalls/Bill Ingalls ...

But NASA’s oldest serving astronaut, Don Pettit, became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards Earth in a spacecraft, concluding a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station.

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).

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is carried to a medical tent shortly after he and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner landed in their Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft near the town of Zhezkazgan ...

Don Pettit is NASA's oldest serving astronaut, and touched back down on Earth to mark the beginning of his seventh decade alive, alongside two Russian cosmonauts in a remote area in Kazakhstan.

A cake, gifts and a low-key family celebration may be how many senior citizens envision their 70th birthday. But NASA's oldest-serving astronaut, Don Pettit, became a septuagenarian while hurtling ...

But NASA’s oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards the Earth to wrap up a seven-month mission. It was the fourth spaceflight for US astronaut Don ...

WASHINGTON — Cake, gifts and a low-key family celebration may be how many senior citizens picture their 70th birthday. But NASA's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while ...