After 220 days on board the International Space Station (ISS), Don Pettit, NASA's oldest serving astronaut, has finally returned to Earth ... the oldest person to have ever flown in orbit ...

They spent 220 days on the (ISS), orbiting the Earth 3,520 times and it means Don has now spent a total of 590 days in space, over four missions. Amazingly, he is not the oldest person to fly in ...

But Nasa’s oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards the Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

(MENAFN) Dan Pettit, the longest-serving astronaut from the United States, has made his return to Earth, coinciding ... not hold the record for the oldest person to have flown in space—John ...

But NASA's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards the Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

America's oldest ... Earth 3,520 times, the US space agency Nasa said. For Pettit - who has now spent a total of 590 days in space - it was his fourth mission. Still, he is not the oldest person ...