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WASHINGTON — Cake, gifts and a low-key family celebration may be how many senior citizens picture their 70th birthday.But NASA 's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling towards the Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station .A Soyuz capsule carrying the American and two Russian cosmonauts landed in Kazakhstan on Sunday, the day of Pettit's milestone birthday.
The trio touched down in a remote area southeast of Kazakhstan after undocking from the space station just over three hours earlier.NASA images of the landing showed the small capsule parachuting down to Earth with the sunrise as a backdrop.The astronauts gave thumbs-up gestures as rescuers carried them from the spacecraft to an inflatable medical tent.
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