Orbite’s four-night orientation course — the 100-level course — is priced at $29,500. Prices for the five-night suborbital training program start at $49,500 per person.. Orbite is also ...

PASADENA, Calif. — Sierra Space is creating an astronaut training program led by a company executive and former NASA astronaut as another step in developing a crewed version of its Dream Chaser ...

Last month, Andrews told GeekWire that the campus is scheduled to open in 2026, and that it would become the home base for Orbite’s private-sector astronaut training programs.

Becoming an astronaut isn’t for everyone. Robb Kulin recently became the first astronaut candidate in 50 years to drop out of NASA’s astronaut training program, and though it’s tempting to ...

SCUBA certification and survival training are just a couple of the things the trainees have to complete before NASA even thinks about sticking them in an astronaut’s seat.

“We have spent the last two years designing our facilities and developing our astronaut training programs leveraging 60 years of pioneering work done by government space agencies and others to ...

Astronaut candidates must pass a swim test and subsequently become scuba certified to prepare them for spacewalk training, she adds. According to Schierholz, astronauts are paid at either a GS-13 ...

Hernández was rejected by the NASA astronaut training program 11 times before being selected at the age of 41 in 2004. 'A Million Miles Away:' The true story of astronaut José Hernández - Los ...

In 2015, Gillis started an internship at SpaceX, and later moved into a full-time position with the astronaut training program. But her passion for music did not subside.