Rakesh Sharma’s journey inspires generations to reach for the stars while staying grounded in purpose and simplicity.

Inviting SpaceX’s top two astronautics experts onto the flight, he says, will enable them to fine-tune and advance SpaceX’s stellar astronaut training program. Like SpaceX founder Elon Musk ...

Ms Bennell-Pegg graduated from the astronaut training program earlier this year, joining a select group of "space-ready" astronauts eligible for mission consideration. Strawberries and lettuce can ...

Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in Earth orbit. Learn more about her life, career and ...

Blue Abyss Ohio will be the first of a series of global training centers planned. Preparing commercial astronauts for space ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Efforts are underway to establish an innovative astronaut training center in Northeast Ohio. Blue Abyss, a company focused on training individuals for extreme environments like ...

But after seeing footage of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft crash down on the remote Kazakh Steppe 10 years ago, photographer Andrew McConnell became more enraptured by astronauts’ unceremonious ...

From record launch rates, to new astronaut missions and science - 2025 promises to be a year like no other in space exploration.

In the first decades of the 21st century, NASA’s Artemis program aims to return humans to the Moon, thanks to international partnerships.

The officials met with representatives from NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), including two ISRO astronauts who are training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center for a proposed ...

García fixes a quick coffee and heads in a borrowed car to the European Astronaut Centre, where she will receive training for six months, spread out until 2026. French instructor Hervé Stevenin is ...