NASA's oldest active astronaut is someone who many people have never heard about, but this 70-year-old is truly inspiring.

The details in this photograph include the airglow of the atmosphere dividing Earth from space — yellow-green at an altitude of 75 miles and a faint reddish hue 250 miles above ...

The NY Times has a nice feature on NASA astronaut Don Pettit’s photography from his latest stay in space, a 220-day missio ...

NASA's oldest active astronaut felt as sick as he looked shortly after returning to Earth this month. Don Pettit and two cosmonaut colleagues came home aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on April 19, ...

"I was right in the middle of emptying the contents of my stomach onto the steppes of Kazakhstan," Pettit recalled Astronaut Don Pettit is opening up about his return to Earth. Pettit, NASA's oldest ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Fresh from space, NASA’s oldest full-time astronaut said Monday that weightlessness made him feel decades younger, with everyday aches and pains vanishing. Don Pettit marked his ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two cosmonaut colleagues will return to Earth this evening (April 19), and you can watch their homecoming live.

NASA's oldest active astronaut has returned home to Houston after his latest stint in orbit. Don Pettit arrived in Space City on Sunday (April 20), which happened to be his 70th birthday.

"I love being in space," he said. "When you're sleeping, you're just floating, and your body, all those little aches and ...

Don Pettit, NASA's oldest astronaut, returned from his latest mission in space on April 20th, the day he turned 70 years old.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit lands safely with the Soyuz MS-26 crew after completing science experiments in orbit.