(Bloomberg) -- In just days, a group of astronauts — three Americans and one Canadian — is slated to fly roughly 5,000 miles past the far side of the moon, the farthest humans have ever traveled in ...

An alumna of the University of Colorado Boulder and a Kentucky native, Overcash was selected as one of 10 astronaut candidates from over 8,000 applications received for their Astronaut Class of 2025.

A Duke University graduate is an astronaut candidate with NASA. Anna Menon has previously been on a mission with Space X, and now she's in the middle of a two-year training program to prepare her for ...

NASA announced 10 new astronaut candidates for its 24th Astronaut Candidate Class. The candidates were selected from a pool of over 8,000 applicants. The new class will undergo two years of training ...

If the pending Artemis II mission is successful, it will not just send Americans around the moon and back for the first time in more than half a century—it will send them further than any human being ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The northern Colorado course was certified in August 2025 and will be part of flight training for future crewed missions to the ...

NASA's Artemis 2 mission is expected to launch no earlier than Feb. 5, during a window open several days each month through April 2026. Artemis 2 will send three NASA astronauts and one Canadian Space ...

Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew capsule, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral April 1 (Reuters) - NASA's Artemis program is the U.S. effort to return astronauts to the ...

BALDWIN, Long Island (WABC) -- Fifth-grade students at an elementary school on Long Island had the opportunity Friday to speak with one of NASA's newest astronauts, who graduated from the same school ...

Guardians and airmen of the 4th Electromagnetic Warfare Squadron, Mission Delta 3, participate in Space Flag 26-1 at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado, Dec. 12, 2025. (Dave Grim/U.S. Space Force) ...

In May 2010, the National Research Council (NRC) was asked by NASA to address several questions related to the Astronaut Corps. The NRC’s Committee on Human Spaceflight Crew Operations was tasked to ...