2 Purdue graduates included in NASA’s astronaut candidate class

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

SpaceX Now Causing NASA to Lose Space Race to China, Experts Say

As the New York Times reports, experts are now warning that China could beat the United States in the race back to the Moon.

NASA’s newest crop of astronauts includes experienced SpaceX flyer for first time

For the first time, NASA’s astronaut candidate class includes someone who has already been to orbit, and is majority women, as the space agency focuses on its goals to send humans back to the Moon and ...

NASA introduces its newest astronauts: 10 chosen from more than 8,000 applicants

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

This Houston woman just got one step closer to becoming first American on Mars

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