"I was right in the middle of emptying the contents of my stomach onto the steppes of Kazakhstan," Pettit recalled Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Astronaut Don Pettit is opening up about his return ...

Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, returned to Earth on Saturday night from the International Space Station. Pettit, who turned 70 on Sunday, landed at 9:20 ...

Don Pettit and two cosmonaut colleagues came home aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on April 19, touching down in Kazakhstan to bring their seven-month International Space Station (ISS ...

Update: Don Pettit and crew made a safe, parachute-assisted landing at 9:20 p.m. Saturday, April 19 (6:20 a.m. on Sunday, April 20, Kazakhstan time), southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan ...

Astronaut Don Pettit being carried to a medical tent shortly after landing in Kazakhstan. NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA’s oldest serving astronaut returned to Earth on Saturday following a 7-month ...

Don Pettit says microgravity makes him "feel 30 years old again." NASA's oldest active-duty astronaut has returned to Earth after spending more than seven months in space, telling reporters he ...