Oldest serving US astronaut returns from space on 70th birthday

SkyNews - 20/04
A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying American Donald Pettit and Russians Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner landed in Kazakhstan on Sunday.

A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts have returned to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS).

A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying American Donald Pettit and Russians Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner landed in Kazakhstan on Sunday.

"Its deorbiting and descent to Earth were normal," Russia's Roscosmos space agency said.

Image: The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft returning to Earth. Pic: AP...
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