Oldest serving US astronaut returns to Earth on 70th birthday

The oldest serving astronaut in the United States, Dan Pettit, has returned to Earth on its 70th birthday.

Soyuz MS-26 Space Capsule, which carries Pettit and his Russian crew Alexey ovchinin and ivan vagner, has made a parachute auxiliary landing on Kazakhstan’s crew on Sunday 06:20 local time (01:20 GMT).

They boarded the International Space Station (ISS) on the 220th, and they also had three,520 times, the US Space NASA said.

It was his fourth task for Pettit, who spent a total of 590 days in space.

Nevertheless, he is not the oldest man flying from the track. The record is the record of the 77 -year -old John Glenn, who performed the NASA mission in 1998. He died in 2016.

Pettit and Russian astronauts will now spend time adjusting by gravity.

Born in Oregon on April 20, 1955, Pettit will fly to Houston in Texas, and Ovchinin and Vagners will be the main space training base in Russia in Zvyozdniy Gorodok (Star City) near Moscow.

Before leaving the ISS, the crew handed the spaceship to Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi.