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NASA Astronaut Don Pettit, Crewmates Complete Space Station Expedition

NASA astronaut Don Pettit returned to Earth Saturday, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, concluding a seven-month science

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