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Doomed Soviet satellite from 1972 will tumble uncontrollably to Earth next week — and it could land almost anywhere
The lander section of the Kosmos 482 probe was launched in 1972 and designed to survive on Venus. Now it's due a fiery ...
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Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active astronaut at 70, arrives in Houston after 7-month space mission (photo)
Don Pettit arrived in Space City on Sunday (April 20), which happened to be his 70th birthday.
NASA's oldest astronaut felt the decades melt away in space before returning on his 70th birthday
NASA's oldest full-time astronaut is back home and doing well a week after wrapping up a seven-month space mission.
Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft returns: NASA astronaut lands on earth on 70th birthday after 220 days in space with Russian crewmates
After a 220-day mission covering over 93.3 million miles, astronaut Donald Pettit and cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan ...
NASA's oldest full-time astronaut, back on Earth at 70, says space made him feel younger
NASA's oldest full-time astronaut, Don Pettit, returned to Earth on April 20 aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule. He spent 220 ...
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NASA's oldest active astronaut returns to Earth on 70th birthday
A Soyuz capsule carrying the American and two Russian cosmonauts landed in Kazakhstan on Sunday, the day of Pettit's ...