Spread the loveAstronauts play a critical role in both space missions and the maintenance of space stations. A master’s degree in a STEM discipline is required, as well as two years of NASA training.

Iceland has been the backdrop for generations of astronaut training missions. We look at what makes the Arctic island nation ...

The first class of NASA astronauts, dubbed the ‘Mercury 7,’ were put through a series of rigorous tests to prepare them for space, from heat chambers to to simulated weightlessness. Apollo’s ...

To prepare for NASA's first journey to the moon in over half a century, the crew of the Artemis II spent the summer training in Earth's most moon-like environment. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman ...

For the first time in five decades, a NASA astronaut candidate has resigned from training, the US space agency said. Robb Kulin resigned from NASA effective August 31 for personal reasons, spokeswoman ...

This past summer, Professor Jason Lee of the University of Connecticut’s Mechanical Engineering Department traded in his usual lab clothes for a spacesuit, spending 45 days in NASA’s Human ...

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After being cherry-picked from over 18,300 applicants, these women will be joining seven men to embark on an intensive two year training programme ... She has also worked at NASA before, in ...

A landscape that could easily be mistaken for the Moon is actually Iceland’s Vatnajökull National Park, where the US space agency (NASA)’s most recent astronaut training mission wrapped up.

After two years of intensive training, including simulated spacewalks ... Will Boeing’s Starliner ever fly Sunita Williams again? NASA still can't say 'For Artemis III': Prada unveils spacesuits ...