Only 370 people have been selected by NASA as astronauts, making it an extraordinarily small and elite group composed mostly ...

The 10 astronaut candidates, six of them women, will begin two years of training before becoming eligible for missions to low ...

Houston native Anna Menon, who previously flew to space on a private SpaceX mission , is among the new class of NASA astronauts.

NASA introduces its 2025 astronaut class ready for lunar and Martian missions. Two women with North Texas ties made the cut.

NASA has named its new class of astronaut candidates. The space agency introduced the four men and six women who comprise its 2025 trainee group.

Graduates of UVM’s Larner College of Medicine have practiced medicine around the globe; now, one Larner alum is poised to ...

NASA's newest astronauts are part of the 24th astronaut class for NASA since the original Mercury Seven made their debut in 1959.

Nasa has introduced its newest astronauts, with the 10 scientists, engineers and test pilots chosen from more than 8,000 applicants to help explore the Moon and possibly Mars. For the first time, ...

On 20 February 1962, NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. The mission was part of NASA’s Mercury human spaceflight programme and came just nine months after Soviet ...

"In January 1959, after an exhaustive search through military service records, a number of America's elite test pilots received orders to attend a series of top-secret briefings in Washington, D.C.

Selected as one of NASA's original Seven Mercury Astronauts, Gus Grissom would go on to become the first man to fly in space twice and later give his life to the NASA space program. This book unearths ...