NASA’s first crewed Starliner mission is set with astronauts Wilmore and Williams, aiming for a…
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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 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…
Ten crewmates now reside aboard the International Space Station (ISS) after the arrival of the…
Lights, snow, and clouds brighten this wintery scene of Earth’s northern latitudes. An astronaut aboard…
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of…
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and Belarusian spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya…
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of…
At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the March 21 launch of the crewed Soyuz-25 spacecraft…
One crew and one cargo spacecraft on two different continents are counting down to launch…
Equipment installs, health investigations, and training occupied the schedule aboard the International Space Station (ISS)…
Thomas P. Stafford, a luminary in the field of space exploration and a decorated U.S.…