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Soyuz crew heading for space station

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Space station crew returns to Earth

Three crew members from the International Space Station safely returned to Earth Friday, wrapping up a 5 1/2-month mission in space, NASA said.

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Soyuz return from ISS set for April 27

Russia's space agency Roscosmos says the Soyuz TMA-22 manned spacecraft from the International Space Station will return to Earth April 27.

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Space photo shows giant Earth crater

A Dutch astronaut aboard the International Space Station has captured a dramatic image of a huge, reddish lava crater in the Sahara Desert.

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Space station panel installation delayed

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ISS Expedition 29 crew returns home

The crew of Expedition 29 returned to earth safely after more than five months of research and exploration on the International Space Station, NASA said.

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Space agencies assign ISS crews

The U.S., Japanese, Russian and European space agencies say they've assigned five new International Space Station crew members and modified other assignments.

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Tool bag, spider lost in space

A tool bag floated away in space as U.S. astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper worked outside the International Space Station Tuesday.

Donald Roy Pettit (born April 20, 1955) is an American chemical engineer and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station and a six-week expedition to find meteorites in Antarctica.

Pettit was raised in Silverton, Oregon and is an Eagle Scout. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Oregon State University in 1978 and a doctoral degree from the University of Arizona in 1983. He worked as a scientist as the Los Alamos National Laboratory until 1996, when he was selected as an astronaut candidate. He is married and has two sons.

Pettit's first space mission was as a mission specialist on ISS Expedition 6 in 2002 and 2003. During his six-month stay aboard the space station, he performed two EVAs to help install external scientific equipment. Throughout his stay on the International Space Station during his free time he filmed numerous experiments he conducted on free spheres of water in an extremely-low gravity environment in a series he called "Saturday Morning Science".

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