NASA’s oldest astronaut felt the decades melt away in space before returning on his 70th birthday

NASA’s oldest full-time astronaut is back home and doing well a week after wrapping up a seven-month space mission. Don Pettit marked his 70th birthday on April 20 by plunging through the atmosphere in a Russian Soyuz capsule. In his first public remarks since touchdown, Pettit said Monday that he threw up all over the Kazak steppes, the result of feeling gravity for the first time in 220 days. But in weightlessness, he said he felt like he was 30 again, with no aches or pain.

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