NASA’s oldest astronaut felt the decades melt away in space before returning on his 70th birthday.

@AssociatedPress reports: "Don Pettit marked his 70th birthday on April 20 by plunging through the atmosphere in a Russian Soyuz capsule to wrap up a seven-month mission at the International Space Station."

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The Mercury Ocean

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China launches three astronauts to replace crew on Chinese space station.

From @AssociatedPress: "The Tiangong, or 'Heavenly Palace,' space station has made China a major contender in space, especially since it was entirely Chinese-built after the country was excluded from the International Space Station over U.S. national security concerns."

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NASA’s oldest active astronaut, Don Pettit, returns to Earth at 70 after 220 days in space and 93.3 million miles traveled timesca.com/nasas-oldest... #Nasa #astronaut #DonPettit #Kazakhstan #spacetravel

NASA’s Oldest Active Astronaut...

NASA’s oldest active astronaut, Don Pettit, returns to Earth at 70 after 220 days in space and 93.3 million miles traveled https://timesca.com/nasas-oldest-active-astronaut-two-russian-cosmonauts-land-in-kazakhstan/ #Nasa #astronaut #DonPettit #Kazakhstan #spacetravel

"A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and one American from the International Space Station landed Sunday in Kazakhstan, ending their seven-month research assignment."

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Science and religion can be allies instead of antagonists, scholar notes https://www.byteseu.com/942005/ #As10345013Orig #astronaut #OuterSpace #planet #Science

https://www.europesays.com/uk/33341/ NASA Astronaut Don Pettit Uses His Camera for Science in Space #astronaut #aurora #Camera #donpettit #internationalspacestation #ISS #Nasa #nikon #Science #Space #UK #UnitedKingdom

NASA Astronaut Don Pettit Uses His Camera for Science in Space https://www.byteseu.com/933044/ #astronaut #aurora #camera #donpettit #internationalspacestation #iss #NASA #nikon #Science #Space

NASA Astronaut Don Pettit Uses His Camera for Science in Space https://petapixel.com/2025/04/17/nasa-astronaut-don-pettit-uses-his-camera-for-science-in-space/ #internationalspacestation #astronaut #donpettit #Culture #science #aurora #camera #Space #nikon #space #News #NASA #iss

And, she didn't go to space but the outer atmosphere of the earth...but now being referred to as "astronaut”.

You're not an astronaut!

“You never see a man, a male astronaut, who’s going up in space and they say, ‘Oh, he took a ride.’ ... It’s always referred to as a flight or a journey,” she [Gayle King] said.

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/astronaut-selection-program/

#Astronaut
#NASA

Wer denkt noch an Charles #Duke?
Er flog mit John #Young und Ken #Mattingly die Mission #Apollo16 zum #Mond, heute vor 53 Jahren hoben sie ab. Im Flug kam es zu kleineren Problemen, aber für Duke gab es nur einen einzigen Moment mit Angst. Young und er wollten Sport auf dem Mond treiben und dabei fiel er hin. Hier beschreibt er die Szene selber.
#Astronaut #Astronauten #raumfahrt

Zwei Kommentare von mir im nächsten Post.

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May I nag a bit?

Just watched the „all women crew riding Blue Origin‘s fully automated Shepard capsule into space to become astronauts“ (because they were hauled high enough, no orbit. A reporter said, „the first all-women crew since 1963 when Valentina Tereshkova flew solo“.

Hmmm. … how about passive“passengers“ instead of working „crew“? Not to be too hard - I‘m sure it was fun.

Compare Sally Ride … 7 / 8 days in orbit working as flight engineer and mission specialist.

Blue Origin completes space trip featuring all-female crew.

NBC News reports: "Today’s female-only spaceflight was the first since 1963, when Valentina Tereshkova of the former Soviet Union became the first woman in space."

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Don Pettit is my favorite #NASA #Astronaut. He's always up to some cool #Space project. This time he's trying solar #Astrophotography #Astronomy on the #ISS. Quote: "The etalon line center needs to be corrected for ISS velocity Doppler shift, for the sun setting case shown here, is about 0.02nm."

From the astrophotography comm...

Deutschland hat seit gestern einen #Koalitionsvertrag. Mein Lieblingssatz des 144 Seiten starken Dokuments steht auf Seite acht:

Wir streben an, dass eine deutsche #Astronautin oder ein deutscher #Astronaut im Rahmen einer internationalen Mission zum #Mond fliegt.
Ob sich #CSU-Chef und Raumfahrtfan Markus Söder wohl selbst in der Astronautenrolle sieht?
(Rickens, Handelsblatt)