Oldest serving US astronaut returns to Earth on seventieth birthday
America’s oldest serving astronaut Dan Pettit has returned to Earth on his seventieth birthday. The Soyuz MS-26 area capsule carrying Pettit and his Russian crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner made a parachute-assisted touchdown in Kazakhstan’s steppe at 06:20 native time (01:20 GMT) on Sunday. They spent 220 days on board the Worldwide House Station…