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For NASA’s oldest serving astronaut Don Petit, his 70th birthday was not about spending quietly with family and friends, blowing cakes, candles or any other traditional feat.
Instead, Don Petit turned 70 in space, while a spacecraft hurt Earth as he wrapped a mission at the international space station.
A Soyuz Capsule carrying American and two Russian cosmonots landed in Kazakhstan on Sunday, as Petit celebrated his milestone birthday with a blast.
“Today in 0420 Moscow time (0120 GMT), Soyuz MS-26 Landing Craft Alexi Ovachinin, Ivan Wagner and Donald (Don) Petit landed near Kazakh city of Kajakhj city,” Russia’s space agency Russian Space Agency Roskosomos.
NASA said he was following his regular medical examination, and that the crew would return to the recovery staging area in Karaganda, Kazakhstan.
Petit will then board a NASA aircraft bound to the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, while Roscosmos said that Russian cosmonots would depart for a training base in Alexi Ovachinin and Ivan Wagner Russia’s Star City.
NASA images of landing showed small capsules below on Earth with sunrise as a background.
Who is Don Petit?
Donald R. Petit, known as Don Petit, was chosen by NASA in 1966. NASA’s oldest serving NASA’s astronaut, Don Petit, has received a bachelor of science in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State University and a doctorate in Chemical Engineering from Arizona University.
Before becoming an astronaut, he was a staff scientist at Los Almos National Laboratory, New Mexico.
In his first space flight, Petit was NASA Science Officer for Expedition 6 in 2003.
This was the fourth spaceflight of Petit, where he worked as a flight engineer for the campaign 71 and 72. He has logged in his entire career in a 590 -day orbit.
Spread in space for 220 days, Petit and their crew revolved around Earth’s 3,520 times, completed 93.3 million miles. Petit, Ovachinin, and Vegner launched and docked the Parikrama laboratory on September 11, 2024.
During its time aboard the space station, Petits conducted research to increase in-orbit metal 3D printing capabilities, further enhance water sanitation technologies, detect plant growth under water conditions and to check fire behavior in micrograti, all contribute to future space missions.
He used his surroundings riding at the station to make the public unique in his free time and fascinate the public with his photography.
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