NASA and Boeing are set to launch CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the ISS on June…
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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.
NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Andre Douglas participated in a nighttime simulated moonwalk in Northern…
NASA is conducting a week-long field test in Arizona’s San Francisco Volcanic Field to prepare…
MIT’s SuperLimbs project aims to improve astronaut mobility on the moon with robotic limbs that…
NASA, Boeing, and ULA are preparing for the Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International…
Officials finalize preparations for Boeing’s Starliner first crewed flight to the ISS, with a high…
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 crew members aboard the International Space Station relocated the Dragon spacecraft on…
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are preparing for a historic flight aboard Boeing’s Starliner…
After re-entering Earth’s atmosphere, SpaceX’s uncrewed Dragon cargo spacecraft made a parachute-assisted splashdown at 1:38…
NASA’s first crewed Starliner mission is set with astronauts Wilmore and Williams, aiming for a…
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams prepare for a historic launch on Boeing’s Starliner…
In a 4+ hour spacewalk, cosmonauts Kononenko and Chub successfully deployed a communications system and…
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are in pre-flight quarantine ahead of their historic…
NASA is set to repair the NICER telescope on the ISS via a spacewalk to…
This reddish “burning mountain” of granite is the highest point in Namibia. This photograph, taken…
During the solar eclipse, the ISS crew, while 260 miles above Earth, captured the Moon’s…
Loral O’Hara completed a 204-day space mission, landing in Kazakhstan and marking the start of…
NASA’s Artemis III mission will deploy three scientific instruments on the Moon’s South Pole to…