PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Donald Pettit, NASA’s oldest active-duty astronaut and Oregon native, is headed to space again. Pettit, 69, is from Silverton, Oregon, and this spaceflight, which took off from ...

In 2003, when the International Space Station had only been occupied for three years, NASA astronaut Donald Pettit took a gorgeous picture of the Earth’s atmosphere, with countless stars frozen in the ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American docked at the International Space Station on Wednesday, a little more than three hours after its launch. The capsule atop a ...

NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has spent 370 days in space, orbiting the Earth more than 3,000 times while traveling 82 million miles. The space traveler has also taken nearly a half-million photos to ...

NASA astronaut Donald Pettit visited RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science on Thursday, Jan. 9, while in town to give a lecture at the George Eastman House on his space photography.

Four NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) sent a Thanksgiving message to Earth on Tuesday, November 25, ahead of the holiday on Thursday. Sunita Williams started by wishing a ...