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American astronaut Donald Pettit returned to the earth on Sunday on the day he turned 70, along with two Russian cosmonauts, Alexei Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, after seven months at the International Space Station (ISS).
In his press release, NASA was glad that Pettit returned home in the “day he turned 70, on Sunday, April 20”, which, according to the American press, makes him the most old active astronaut.
The three astronauts left the Earth on September 11 to “spend 220 days in space, blinding the land 3,520 times, traveling 93.3 million miles”, ie 150 million kilometers, according to the American Space Agency, notes We.md with reference to.
During the seven months spent on the ISS, Don Pettit “conducted research to improve residual water treatment technologies, plant cultivation and fire management,” NASA detailed.
