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The oldest in America astronaut Dan Petit returned to Earth on his 70th birthday.
Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft, which carried Petti, and his liturgies of the Russian crew Alexei Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner, with the help of parachute landing in Kazakhstan’s steppe at local time (01:20 GMT) on Sunday.
They spent 220 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS), 3520 times in the Earth’s orbit, NASA Space Agency said.
For Pettit – which has now spent only 590 days in space – it was his fourth mission.
However, he is not the oldest person flying in orbit – this entry belongs to John Glenn, who at the age of 77 arrived at NASA’s mission in 1998. He died in 2016.
Pet and two Russian astronauts are now spending some time, rebuilt for gravity.
After that, Petti, born in Oregon on April 20, 1955, will be taken to Houston in Texas, while Ouchinin and Wagner will go to Russia’s main space base in Zvyozdniy Gorodok (Star City) near Moscow.
Before the departure from the ISS, the crew handed over the spacecraft team to the Japanese astronaut Takui.
