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53 years later, old Soviet Venus spacecraft to fall back to Earth — but there’s a potential risk
Cosmos 482 launched in late March 1972 toward Venus. However, the upper stage of its Soyuz booster shut down early. This left ...
NASA's 70-Year-Old Astronaut Says He Feels Decades Younger In Space
NASA's oldest full-time astronaut is back home and doing well a week after wrapping up a seven-month space mission.
NASA's oldest full-time astronaut, back on Earth at 70, says space made him feel younger
NASA's oldest full-time astronaut, Don Pettit, returned to Earth on April 20 aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule. He spent 220 ...
OTD In Space - April 28: World's 1st Space Tourist Launches To Space Station
On April 28, 2001, the world's first space tourist hitched a ride to the International Space Station on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The 60-year-old businessman and multimillionaire Dennis Tito funded ...
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'I didn't look too good because I didn't feel too good': NASA astronaut Don Pettit explains why he seemed so unwell after landing (video)
"I didn't look too good because I didn't feel too good," Pettit told reporters during a press conference from NASA's Johnson ...
Meet the astronaut who celebrated his 70th birthday by thudding into the planet
Not many people celebrate their birthday by burning a fiery arc through the atmosphere, pulling 4.4gs in freefall back to ...