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 hurtling ...

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 hurtling ...

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After 220 days on board the International Space Station (ISS), Don Pettit, NASA's oldest serving astronaut, has finally returned to Earth. Mr Pettit marked his 70th birthday by hurtling towards ...

The four-story gantry houses a full-scale model of a rocket engine that comes to life during a simulated static test fire. The Gantry at LC-39 is also home to NASA’s largest ... finalists and brought ...

While on the ISS, NASA revealed that the astronauts and cosmonauts carried out research into water sanitisation technology, plant growth in certain conditions and fire behaviour in microgravity.

But Nasa’s oldest serving ... plane to the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Texas. The astronauts spent their time on the ISS researching areas such as water sanitization technology, plant growth in ...

Pettit will then board a NASA plane bound for the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. According to NASA officials at the landing site, Pettit is doing well and in the range of what is ...

From there, as per the US space agency, Pettit will board a NASA aircraft back to Houston, where he will continue his post-mission recovery at Johnson Space Center. Ovchinin and Vagner will return to ...

His work included advancing metal 3D printing in microgravity, improving water sanitization technologies, studying plant growth under different watering conditions, and investigating how fire ... a ...