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The oldest active astronaut in NASA redefined the “home” on your birthday, as it landed from the International Space Station on the same day, which was 70 years old.
Don Betet fell on Saturday (April 19) With his colleagues at the Soyuz MS-26 crew, Alexei Ovchaneen, 53, and Evan Wagner, 39. The US astronaut and two Russian astronauts arrived at Earth in Kazakhstan at 9:20 pm with two leaderships (0120 GMT or 6:20 am local time April 20), seven months later. On the same spacecraft.
Betit He was born on April 20, 1955, in Silverton, Oregon, but said that feeling that you are at home related to the place you were.
Don Betette, the oldest active astronaut in NASA, is transferred to a medical tent shortly after her return from 220 days on the International Space Station. Betit and his colleagues from the Soyuz MS-26 crew fell on the steps in Kazakhstan on his seventieth birthday. | Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalos
“After I was [the] Space station for seven months, we will return to us Soyuz A satellite vehicle lands in Kazakhstan. When our capsule goes to these desert apartments, I will literally be on the other side of the ground, about 12,000 miles from home. However, I will be at home, “Betit He wrote while he was still in space Friday (April 18).
“I can take a picture at some point in the future, the return of a crew Mars And after introducing themselves into Low Earth orbitThey will look at this blue jewel, they revolve below and say: “I am at home.”
Betit’s journey was not long or far as a journey to the Red Planet, but for many who followed its manifestations “the science of opportunity” and amazing Earth photos And other tourist attractions in space, no less attractive.
“Say goodbye today to Don Bettte,” I wrote NASA and ExpeiedITITION 73 Nichole Ayers On the social media network x on saturday. “It is sweet and passed because he had an amazing task and inspired many people while he was here.”
Soyuz MS-26 removes the spacecraft from Rassvet Search Unit after 220 days at the International Space Station on Saturday, April 19, 2025. Credit: NASA
Betit, Ovchaneen and Agenner’s trip started at 5:57 pm EST (2157 GMT) on Saturday, when the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft from the station’s search unit at the station was canceled. After about two and a half hours, the car conducted a burning burning and threw its tropical units and payment, leaving only the gum -shaped lineage to return the three crew to the homeland.
Stay in the orbit, as well as his colleague in NASA, Ann McLean Space Pioneers and Johnny Kim; Jacqua (Japanese Space Explorement Agency) Space Pioneer and Expedition 73 Commander Takoya Unishi; And astronauts Kirill Peskov, Sergey Resikov and Alexei Zubricki from the Russian Federal Foundation Roskosmos.
On the ground, Soyuz MS-26 and its crew were met by the Russian recovery forces and NASA’s medical workers to help get out of the capsule and undergo quick checks before flying on a helicopter to the nearby city of Karaganda, Kazakhstan. From there, Betit will put a NASA plane and return to Houston, while Ovchinin and Vagner will leave for a training base in Star City, Russia.
In addition to Betit Personal Scientific Deals – including Drinking from the zero cup g He was designed on a previous visit to the station and photographing thin chips of ice under the polarized filters – also helped in conducting hundreds of technological experiences and experiences during his period as an exploratory group 71/72.
Pettit also helped oversee the departure SpacexCrew-9 mission on the Dragon “Freedom” spacecraft and Crew-10 on Dragon “endurance”, as well as the departure of Cygenus “SS Francis R.” Dick “Scopee”.
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Ovchinin and Vagner also participated in scientific experiments and performed a 7 -hour and 17 -minute surveyor to install X -ray roll on the outer part of the Zvezda service unit. They were also in space for the arrival of the Soyuz MS-28 and MS-29 and MS-30 crew, as well as leaving MS-27 and MS-28.
Mission Soyuz MS-26 depicts the crew as “Burlak”, or Barge Tailers- their connection mark. | Credit: Glavkosmos
This was the fourth of space lighting in Betit, Ovchinin and the second. After the landing on Saturday, the total job time in Pettit in space is 590 days, Ovchinin has 595 days and Vagner 416 days per orbit.
Soyuz MS-26 was 72 Soyuz for Russia to launch International Space Station Since 2000 and 155 Airlines since 1967. During 220 days in space, 93.3 million miles (150.2 million km) traveled during the rotation of 3520 times.
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