Space’s oldest shutterbug


The docking of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying cargo to the International Space Station. — Don Pettit/Nasa via The New York Times

DON Pettit, Nasa’s oldest active astronaut, returned to Earth on April 20, the day he turned 70 years old.

That concluded his fourth trip to space – a busy 220 days at the International Space Station.

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