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But nasa’s Oldest Serving Astronaut, Don Pettit, Became A Septuagenarian While Hurtling Towars Earth in a Spacecraft to Wrap Up a Seven-Month Mission On Pooard the International Space Station (ISS).
A Soyuz Capsule Carrying the American and Two Russian Cosmonauts Landed in Kazakhstan on Sunday, Pettit’s Birthday.
“Today at 0420 Musow Time (0120 GMT), The Soyuz MS-26 Landing Craft With Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Donald (Don) Peoard Landed Near the Kazakh Town of Zhezkazgan, “Russia’s Space Agency Rosocosmos SAID.
Spending 220 Days in Space, Pettit, Ovchinin and Vagner Orbited the Earth 3,520 times and completed a journey of 93.3m Miles over the couress of their mission.
It was the FOURTH Spaceflight for Pettit, who has like more than 18 months in orbit duuring his 29-Year Career.
The Trio Touged Download in a Remote Area South-East of Zhezkazan in Kazakhstan at 6.20Aam (0120 GMT) after Undocking from the Space Station Just Over Three Hours Earlier.
Nasa Images of the Landing Showed the Small Capsule Parachuteting Download to Earth with the Sunrise as a Backdrop. The Astronauts Gave Thumbs-Up Gestures as Rescueers Caried them from the Spacecraft to an infattle Medical Teent.
Nasa said in a statement that pettit was “doing well and in the Range of what is expected for his following Ruiturn to Earth.”
He was then set to fly to the Kazakh City of Karaganda Before Boarding A Nasa Plane to the Agency’s Johnson Space Center in Texas.
The Astronauts Special Their Time on the Iss Researching Areas Such as Water Sanitisation Technology, Plant Growth Under Various Conlates and Fire Behaviour in MicroGRAVITY, Nasa Said.
The Trio’s Seven-Month Trip was Just Short of the Nine Months that the Nasa Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams Unexpetedly Spent on the Orbital Lab after the Spacecraft them Were Testing SuffERED Technical Isues and Was Deamp Unfit to Fly them back to make.
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