Astronaut’s 70th birthday will involve a space-based roller coaster ride

After just over seven months in space, NASA’s oldest serving astronaut, Don Pettit, is returning to Earth. Pettit will travel home alongside Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner aboard a Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft after departing the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday, April 19. “Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will undock from the orbiting laboratory’s […]