
Nasa’s oldest astronaut celebrates 70th birthday with return to Earth | Space
Cake, gifts and a low-key family celebration may be how many senior citizens celebrate their 70th birthday. But Nasa’s oldest serving astronaut, Don Pettit, became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up a seven-month mission onboard the International Space Station (ISS). A Soyuz capsule carrying the American and two Russian…