NASA has released a new update on a long-running air leak aboard the International Space…
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Astronauts are highly trained professionals who travel beyond Earth’s atmosphere to conduct missions in space. Their work involves everything from piloting spacecraft and performing scientific experiments to assembling structures in orbit and exploring other celestial bodies. Astronauts are at the forefront of human space exploration, helping to advance our understanding of space, technology, and the effects of microgravity on the human body. This page highlights the latest news about astronaut missions, training, discoveries aboard space stations, and the expanding role of humans in the new era of space travel.
Astronauts aboard Artemis II have returned safely after a record-breaking trip around the Moon, proving…
A fiery return from the Moon meets a perfectly timed ocean rescue in NASA’s high-stakes…
Artemis II is so perfectly on course that NASA skipped a burn—while the crew gears…
For the first time since the Apollo era, humans are once again leaving Earth orbit…
NASA’s Artemis II crew is go for the Moon—launching humanity back into lunar orbit after…
A surprise toilet malfunction tested Artemis II—but the crew fixed it fast and is back…
NASA has launched four astronauts on Artemis II, the first crewed mission to fly around…
A breathtaking astronaut photo reveals El Salvador’s Lake Coatepeque—an ancient volcanic crater lake that sometimes…
Scientists have grown chickpeas in simulated moon dirt—raising the possibility that future astronauts could one…
SpaceX Crew-12 is in quarantine as NASA prepares for its next journey to the space…
After nearly three decades of service, NASA astronaut Suni Williams officially retired from the agency,…
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission returned safely to Earth after 167 days in orbit, completing hundreds…
From a pool of 8,000 hopefuls, NASA has chosen 10 exceptional astronaut candidates. Their diverse…
What happens when scientists try to reinvent rice for life on the Moon? You get…
Don Pettit has returned to Earth after a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station,…
After over seven months in orbit, astronauts Don Pettit, Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner have…