@abcworldnews: #NASA's oldest active-duty #astronaut has returned to #Earth after spending more than seven months in #space, telling reporters he still feels "like a little kid inside" despite turning 70 during his mission. During a press conference Monday at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, veteran astronaut Don Pettit reflected on his latest 220-day mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). "It's good to be back on planet Earth. As much as I love exploring space, going into the frontier and making observations and doing the mission, you do reach a time where it's time to come home and here I am," Pettit said. The accomplished astronaut has now accumulated 590 days in space over four missions, ranking third on NASA's all-time list. As an Expedition 71/72 flight engineer, Pettit orbited Earth 3,520 times and traveled more than 93.3 million miles before returning aboard a Russian-made Soyuz spacecraft on his 70th birthday. #WorldNewsTonight #News

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