Don Pettit, NASA’s oldest active astronaut at 70, arrives in Houston after 7-month space mission (photo)
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NASA Dun Betetta Pioneer waves after his arrival in Houston on April 20, 2025. Bettite returned to Earth on April 19 to conclude the seven -month mission at the International Space Station. | Credit: NASA
The oldest active astronaut in NASA returned to the house to Houston after his last work in orbit.
Don Betit Space Sunday (April 20), which happened to be his seventy birthday.
It was a day after Betit and his colleagues in the astronaut, Alexei Ovchaneen and Ivan Wagner, Fell On the steps in Kazakhstan inside the Russian Soyuz capsule, and they brought for seven months International Space Station (ISS) is important to achieve an end. (It was Sunday in Kazakhstan when the trio fell, so the landing occurred on Betit’s birthday.)
Betette looked a little totally in NASA’s broadcast, as the recovery team members took it out Soyuz. But this was not concerned, NASA officials told us on the day of landing.
Betit “in good condition and in the scope of what is expected for him after returning to Earth”, the agency He said by updating on X Late Saturday.
In this same position, NASA officials noted that Betiti tends to spend a difficult time with landing. Or rather, they allowed Pettit to conduct this point himself, quoting an interview that the astronaut gave a television station in Oregon from the International Space Station on April 16: “This is a physiological thing. It affects different different people. Some people can go out and eat pizza and dance.
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It seems that the time has done the usual healing trick, because Pettit looks happy and healthy now: NASA’s Post is distinguished by his arrival in Houston with the image of the astronaut who smiles and waved as he got out of the plane that brought him there.
Pettit spent a total of 590 days of Earth through four different space tasks. The astronaut is known for his space lovers Amazing tropical imagingAnd, which he often shares on social media.
