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Meet Don Pettit, NASA’s oldest active astronaut who just completed a 220-day space mission

Meet Don Pettit, NASA’s oldest active astronaut who just completed a 220-day space mission

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Don Pettit, the oldest serving astronaut at NASA, splashed down to Earth on Sunday, April 20, after spending over 220 days on board the International Space Station (ISS) The 70-year-old had embarked on the seven months-long science mission aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft on September 11, 2024. The mission crew also comprised Russian cosmonauts […]

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Astronaut James McDivitt, Apollo 9 commander, dies at 93

Astronaut James McDivitt, Apollo 9 commander, dies at 93

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James A. McDivitt, who commanded the Apollo 9 mission testing the first complete set of equipment to go to the moon, has died. He was 93. McDivitt was also the commander of 1965’s Gemini 4 mission, where his best friend and colleague Ed White made the first U.S. spacewalk. His photographs of White during the […]

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