NASA’s oldest astronaut Don Petit became 70 years old while falling on Earth at a distance of 17,500 mph.

Nasa astronaut Don Petit marked her 70th birthday A Russian Soyuz came back to a Russian soyuz capsule after a 220-day mission while returning to Earth in a Russian Soyuz capsule, not with a calm or comfortable family of retirement. International Space Station,
As Petit and his Russian crew, Alexai Ovachinin and Ivan Wagner re -entered the Earth’s atmosphere on Sunday, their spacecraft became streak through the sky, which was descending in the desolate step of Kazakhstan after the sun. It was the fourth spaceflight of Petit and perhaps his most poetic – 70 was turning while falling from space.
The trio had completed 3,520 classes and traveled over 93 million miles, in which microgravity conducted research ranging from fire behavior to development experiments. Petit, now logged in in his 29 -year career with more than 18 months in space, emerged from capsules with a thumb, although looked quite surprised.
NASA said, “Don is doing well and within the expected range after his return,” NASA said, as Medix had examined the astronaut before his visit to Houston.
For most people, 70 can mean slow. For Don Petit, it meant age and breaking the boundaries of gravity.