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Kuwait Times
21-05-2025
- Science
- Kuwait Times
NASA's oldest active astronaut returns to Earth on 70th birthday
This hanodut picture courtesy of NASA shows the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan with Expedition 72 NASA astronaut Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner aboard.--AFP photos Cake, gifts and a low-key family celebration may be how many senior citizens picture their 70th birthday. But NASA's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards the Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). A Soyuz capsule carrying the American and two Russian cosmonauts landed in Kazakhstan on Sunday, the day of Pettit's milestone birthday. 'Today at 0420 Moscow time (0120 GMT), the Soyuz MS-26 landing craft with Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Donald (Don) Pettit aboard landed near the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan,' Russia's space agency Roscosmos said. Spending 220 days in space, Pettit and his crewmates Ovchinin and Vagner orbited the Earth 3,520 times and completed a journey of 93.3 million miles over the course of their mission. This hanodut picture shows Roscosmos cosmonaut Ivan Vagner (center) being carried to a medical tent shortly after he, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner landed in their Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. This hanodut picture shows the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan. This hanodut picture courtesy of NASA shows Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin (center) outside the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft after he landed with NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin. It was the fourth spaceflight for Pettit, who has logged more than 18 months in orbit throughout his 29-year career. The trio touched down in a remote area southeast of Kazakhstan after undocking from the space station just over three hours earlier. NASA images of the landing showed the small capsule parachuting down to Earth with the sunrise as a backdrop. The astronauts gave thumbs-up gestures as rescuers carried them from the spacecraft to an inflatable medical tent. Despite looking a little worse for wear as he was pulled from the vessel, Pettit was 'doing well and in the range of what is expected for him following return to Earth,' NASA said in a statement. 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 spent their time on the ISS researching areas such as water sanitization technology, plant growth in various conditions and fire behavior in microgravity, NASA said. The trio's seven-month trip was just short of the nine months that NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams unexpectedly spent stuck on the orbital lab after the spacecraft they were testing suffered technical issues and was deemed unfit to fly them back to Earth. Space is one of the final areas of US-Russia cooperation amid an almost complete breakdown in relations between Moscow and Washington over the Ukraine conflict.—AFP
Saba Yemen
20-04-2025
- Science
- Saba Yemen
Successful return of Soyuz spacecraft with three astronauts
Moscow - (Saba): The Russian Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft successfully landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan on Sunday, carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, and American astronaut Donald Pettit, after a mission of more than 200 days to the International Space Station. The crew began their return journey after the spacecraft separated from the station at 00:57 Moscow time. The braking system then began operating in preparation for the landing, which occurred as planned at 3:27 a.m. During the mission, the crew conducted more than 40 scientific experiments, in addition to a spacewalk to install a spectrometer to study cosmic radiation. A new crew of astronauts from Russia, the United States, and Japan is scheduled to continue working on the station. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print more of (International)
Washington Post
20-04-2025
- Science
- Washington Post
A Soyuz capsule with 2 Russians and 1 American returns to Earth from the International Space Station
MOSCOW — A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and one American from the International Space Station landed Sunday in Kazakhstan, ending their seven-month research assignment. According to Russian space agency Roscosmos, the capsule carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner and astronaut Don Pettit of U.S. space agency NASA landed on the Kazakh steppe near the city of Zhezkazgan at 6:20 a.m. (0120 GMT). Roscosmos said the parachute-assisted landing was a trouble-free descent.
Al Arabiya
20-04-2025
- Science
- Al Arabiya
Soyuz spacecraft lands with two Russians, American aboard
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying an American and two Russians from the International Space Station (ISS) landed back on Earth Sunday on the steppe of Kazakhstan, Russia's Roscosmos space agency said. 'Today at 0420 Moscow time (0120 GMT), the Soyuz MS-26 landing craft with Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Donald (Don) Pettit aboard landed near the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan,' the space agency said. The Russian cosmonauts Ovchinin and Vagner and NASA astronaut Pettit had spent 220 days in space after travelling to the ISS in September last year. They coincided on the ISS until March with a pair of US astronauts who came for eight days and ended up stranded for more than nine months after the spacecraft they travelled on was deemed unfit to fly them back to Earth. Space is one of the final areas of US-Russia cooperation amid an almost complete breakdown in relations between Moscow and Washington over the Ukraine conflict.
Al Etihad
20-04-2025
- Science
- Al Etihad
Soyuz MS-26 space capsule lands with two Russians, American aboard
20 Apr 2025 12:47 MOSCOW (AFP)A Soyuz spacecraft carrying an American and two Russians from the International Space Station (ISS) landed back on Earth Sunday on the steppe of Kazakhstan, Russia's Roscosmos space agency said."Today at 0420 Moscow time (0120 GMT), the Soyuz MS-26 landing craft with Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, and Donald (Don) Pettit aboard landed near the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan," the space agency Russian cosmonauts Ovchinin and Vagner and NASA astronaut Pettit had spent 220 days in space after travelling to the ISS in September last year. They coincided on the ISS until March with a pair of US astronauts who came for eight days and ended up stranded for more than nine months after the spacecraft they travelled on was deemed unfit to fly them back to Earth.
