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Nasa’s oldest astronaut celebrates 70th birthday with return to Earth

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Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards Earth in a spacecraft.

Pettit and his crewmates, Alexei Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner , orbited the Earth 3,520 times.

The trio touched down in a remote area south-east of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan at 6:20am (0120 GMT ) after undocking from the space station just over three hours earlier .