Two Purdue alumni, including an Indiana native, have officially joined NASA’s 2025 class of astronaut candidates. Yuri Kubo, ...

Houston's Anna Menon, former SpaceX engineer and HISD graduate, joins 10 new NASA astronaut candidates selected from 8,000 applicants for Mars exploration.

In September 2025, NASA declared that it was in the midst of a "Golden Age of innovation and exploration," and that a huge ...

NASA OFFICIALLY SELECTED ITS NEXT BATCH OF ASTRONAUT CANDIDATES FOR THIS YEAR’S CLASS, INCLUDING TWO WITH LOCAL TIES. THE TEN AMERICAN MEN AND WOMEN WERE INTRODUCED TO THE PUBLIC TODAY DURING A ...

Twenty percent of NASA's 2025 astronaut candidates are Purdue University graduates, adding to the university's legacy as the ...

An astronaut from Illinois was introduced as one of 10 candidates selected by NASA for potential future space missions. Find out about the new class.

NASA has named the next 10 members of its astronaut corps, including a geologist who hails from the Pacific Northwest.

For the first time, there were more women than men in an incoming astronaut class. They included a Houston-based SpaceX ...

NASA announced its newest class of astronauts Sept. 22 as agency leaders and lawmakers emphasized their intent to return ...

The astronaut candidates will begin two years of training before becoming eligible for missions to low-Earth orbit and beyond ...

NASA’s 10 new astronaut candidates were introduced Monday following a competitive selection process of more than 8,000 ...