NASA on Monday introduced the 10 people who will join the agency’s astronaut corps as it races to return humans to the moon.

NASA named 10 new astronaut candidates for its 24th class of astronauts Monday, including one person who has already been to space. Anna Menon, 39, a SpaceX engineer from Houston, was one of the four crew on Jared Isaacman’s Polaris Dawn mission that launched from Kennedy Space Center in 2024 and was one of the six women and four men announced to join the astronaut corps.

After a few months docked at the ISS, the Dragon cargo capsule will depart and head for a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. SpaceX will recover the pressurized capsule to fly again, while the trunk containing the reboost kit will jettison and burn up in the atmosphere.

SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft successfully finished a test reboost of the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday (Sept. 3), according to NASA. The freighter fired two of its Draco engines for 5 minutes and 3 seconds during the maneuver, agency officials wrote in a Wednesday statement.

The SpaceX Dragon vehicle that will bring home the Starliner astronauts in February launched Saturday from Florida for the Crew-9 mission.

As the fracas between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump escalated last week to the point of Musk threatening to decommission SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, NASA revealed even more delays to Dragon’s alternative, Boeing’s Starliner. “NASA is ...

SpaceX’s Dragon, which arrived at the ISS on August 25, completed the burn on Wednesday to test the spacecraft’s new capability of boosting the station’s altitude, NASA said. Such reboosts are vital as they counteract the station’s gradual loss of altitude caused by atmospheric drag.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched into the clear night sky on Sunday, Aug. 24, hoisting a Dragon spacecraft full of supplies to the International Space Station. Known as CRS-33, the mission took off at 2:45 a.m. from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- It's back to the future as NASA astronauts launch again from the U.S. - aboard a retro-style "Right Stuff" capsule. Make no mistake: This is not your father's - or grandfather's - capsule. SpaceX's Dragon crew capsule outshines NASA ...