NASA astronaut Don Pettit, 70, will return to Earth on April 19 after completing his fourth mission aboard the ISS. Pettit spent 220 days on this mission, marking a career total of 590 days in space. His return aboard Soyuz MS-26 with two Russian cosmonauts is set to conclude with a parachute landing in Kazakhstan.
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- Don Pettit, age 70, NASA’s oldest active astronaut
- Returning to Earth April 19 after 220 days aboard ISS
- Lifetime total in space: 590 days across four missions
- Traveled 93.3 million miles, completed 3,520+ Earth orbits
- Captured auroras, city lights, lightning events from ISS
- Shared time-lapse videos, Starlink flight, 180° ISS rotation
- Posted rare lightning events like Sprites, Blue Jets over Amazon
- One aurora video credited fellow astronaut @astro_jannicke
- Return via Soyuz MS-26 with cosmonauts Ovchinin, Vagner
- Landing expected April 20 (Kazakhstan), 6:20 a.m. local time




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