NASA astronaut to take space-based roller coaster ride on 70th birthday
After just over seven months in space, NASA’s oldest serving astronaut, Don Pettit, is returning to Earth. Pettit will travel home alongside Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner aboard a Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft after departing the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday, April 19. “Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner will
Kate Mara Puts Twist on Alien Invasion Movie in The Astronaut
Writer and director Jess Varley adds to Mara’s own experience with the real-world research she did into the space oddities and “anti-gravity” dreams real astronauts have experienced after returning home. “I looked at real symptoms that astronauts have,” Varley tells us. “Sam crash lands in the beginning of the movie,
ISS astronaut shares epic photo of a ‘starry starry night’
Don Pettit’s been snapping away in orbit again. This time, the NASA astronaut has captured a stunning image of the Milky Way from the International Space Station (ISS) . It also features Earth and city lights some 250 miles below the orbital outpost. Starry starry night from an orbital palette
