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NASA's oldest active astronaut lands with space station crewmates on his 70th birthday

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Don Pettit , Aleksey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner landed from the International Space Station .

Pettit was born on April 20, 1955 , in Silverton , Oregon , but said that the feeling of being home is relative to where you have been.

The U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts reached the ground in Kazakhstan at 9:20 p.m. EDT ( 0120 GMT or 6:20 am . local time April 20 ) Pettit 's total time in space is 590 days .

Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com .

Pearlman was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville , Alabama in 2009 .

He was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.

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