Based on repeated stops and starts seen on NASA's countdown clock, the complex test originally planned for late November, ran into problems at various points on Saturday. NASA provided no details, but ...
Houston, the site of mission control for astronaut training, just got two new additions from Texas. Rebecca Lawler and Anna ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — An accomplished U.S. Navy pilot from Oldham County has been selected to train as part of NASA’s next class of astronauts. Erin Overcash, 34, of Goshen, was one of ten people chosen ...
Astronauts undergo rigorous underwater helicopter escape training to prepare for post-mission ocean landings and ensure ...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The U.S. Space & Rocket Center is hosting its annual Space Camp for Interested Visually Impaired Students this week, providing blind and low-vision students with hands-on astronaut ...
AMES, Iowa – It really isn’t all about training the next generation of astronauts. The third year (or Expedition 3) of the Spaceflight Operations Workshop at Iowa State University is really more about ...
From space rockets to 13-hour workdays, millennial astronaut Sara Sabry reveals the mind trick that can make discomfort your secret weapon to success. “I see a lot of young people now—they’re wanting ...
There are many difficult things about sending humans to space, from dealing with health effects on the human body to the risks of launch and landing to keeping astronauts well-fed and supplied.
Cap (l–r) Kinemo’s Ciaran Simms with ESA’s Jonathan Scott at the European Space Agency’s astronaut training centre. Cork, Ireland – ESA BIC Ireland, which is led by Tyndall National Institute, one of ...
Randolf Breznik is heading to the ISS in 2017. —STAR CITY, Russia -- A U.S. astronaut has spent two nights braving the Russian snows with his crew at a space center outside Moscow, simulating ...