It was the fourth space flight for the American astronaut Don Pettit, who recorded more than 18 months in orbit throughout his career.
The cake, gifts and a celebration of the discreet family can be the number of elderly people who imagine their 70th anniversary.
But the oldest NASA astronaut, Don Pettit, has become septuagenarian while rushing to the ground in a spaceship to conclude a seven -month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
A Soyuz capsule carrying the American cosmonauts and two Russians landed in Kazakhstan on Sunday, the day of the marking birthday of Pettit.
“Today, on 0420, Moscow Time (0120 GMT), the landing job of Soyuz MS-26 with Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Donald (Don) Pettit on board A landing near the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan,” said Roscosmos of the Russian space agency Roscosmos.
Spend 220 days in space, Pettit and its Ovchinin and Vagner teammates orbited the land 3,520 times and made a trip of 93.3 million miles during their mission.
It was the fourth space flight for Petit, which recorded more than 18 months in orbit throughout his 29 -year career.
The trio approached in a remote area in the south-east of Kazakhstan after defeating the space station just over three hours earlier.
The images of the NASA landing showed the small capsule parachuting on earth with the sunrise in the background.
Extending 220 days in space, Pettit and his teammates Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, orbit the earth 3,520 times and made a trip of 93.3 million miles.
The astronauts gave thumbs while the rescuers transported them from the spaceship to an inflatable medical tent.
Although it looks a little worse for wear and tear because it was taken from the ship, Pettit “managed well and in the range of what is expected for him after returning to earth,” NASA said in a statement.
He was then ready to fly for the Kazakh city in Karaganda before boarding a NASA plane for the Agency’s Johnson Space Center in Texas.
Astronauts have spent their time on the ISS looking for areas such as water disinfection technology, plant growth in various conditions and microgravity behavior, NASA said.
The seven -month trip of the trio was just below the nine months that the astronauts of NASA Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams passed unexpectedly trapped on the orbital laboratory after the spaceship they tested underwent technical problems and were considered unfit to bring them back to earth.
Space is one of the last areas of American cooperation in the midst of an almost complete break in relations between Moscow and Washington on the Ukrainian conflict.
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