NASA astronaut Don Pettit returns to Earth on a Soyuz spacecraft later this week. Read about his extraordinary ride home on ...

Astronaut Don Pettit, who has been at the International Space Station since September, is set to land Saturday in Kazakhstan ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two cosmonaut colleagues will return to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit and crew will depart the International Space Station and return to Earth on Saturday, April 19.

On Tuesday, three astronauts were launched to the ISS on a Russian Soyuz rocket -- NASA's Jonny Kim and Russian cosmonauts ...

Pettit has been dazzling fans back on terra firma with his amazing photography during his seven-month mission, with standout work including images of star trails, aurora, a rocket launch, a returning ...

The SpaceX ship splashed down just after 9:15 am on Friday off the coast of Oceanside, CA after 4 days in orbit.

MOSCOW (AP) — A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and ... In the last stage of the landing, it descended under a red-and-white parachute at about 7.2 meters per second (16 mph), with small ...

The Soyuz TMA-11 capsule lies on its side on the Kazakh steppe after landing. Search teams and companies involved in the rescue have planted their flags nearby. NASA/Reuters/Pool There was an ...

We assumed Soyuz capsules splashdown somewhere near Russia just like the iconic images of Apollo capsules. While they can land in water, their 13 target landing sites are all on land in the ...

The spacecraft with two Russian and one American astronaut took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Last year, the Russian Soyuz capsule took about 3.5 hours to ... However, an immediate return is not possible due to alignment with landing zones and Earth’s rotation. The spacecraft will ...