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Don Pettit Post-Flight News Conference
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA International Space Station Soyuz 2.1a | Soyuz MS-26 Expedition 71
NASA astronaut Don Pettit will share details of his recent mission aboard the International Space Station. Pettit returned to Earth on April 19 (April 20, Kazakhstan time), along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday on April 20. He spent 220 days in space as an Expedition 71/72 flight engineer, bringing his career total to 590 days in space during four spaceflights. Pettit and his crewmates completed 3,520 orbits of Earth over the course of their 93-million-mile journey. They also saw the arrival of six visiting spacecraft and the departure of seven.
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