Currently, the NASA astronaut corps is focused on training crews for test flights and eventual missions on the International Space Station (ISS). Learn more about the ISS here. Future training will also help b
Astronaut interview will be multiple stages:Pre-interview by phoneFormal interview with panelMultiple medical and psychological testsMany physical testsMore tests.Just keep going and find out your results. Hopefully, you will pass the interviews and examinations. If not, apply again; improve your resu...
"The breadth and depth of experience that this class brings to our space program is nothing short of amazing," Shannon Walker, deputy chief of NASA's Astronaut Office and "class mom" for the Group 23 astronauts, said at their graduation ceremony held at theJohnson Space Centerin Houston on ...
Astronaut candidates must pass the NASA long-duration spaceflight physical. As part of the application process, applicants will, for the first time, be required to take an online assessment that will require up to two hours to complete. After completing training, the new astronauts could launch ...
Vande Hei launchedApril 9, 2021, alongside Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov. It was his second journey into space. The 355-day mission is the longest single spaceflight by a U.S. astronaut and gives him a lifetime total of 523 days in space. Dubrov, who was on hi...
NASA astronaut Christina Koch, an Artemis 2 mission specialist for the moon mission, tests the side hatch of an Orion spacecraft at Lockheed Martin Space in Denver. The Orion spacecraft set to carry Koch and three others around the moon finished a power-on test at NASA's Kennedy Space Cent...
an accelerated mission to put people back on the moon for the first time since the 1970s to train and prove technologies that would later be sent on a Mars mission. Scientists have eyed lunar water as a key resource for enabling long-duration astronaut missions on the moon, though its fo...
A veteran of two long-duration spaceflights, Williams spent a total of 322 days in space and currently holds the record for total cumulative spacewalk time by a female astronaut (50 hours and 40 minutes). She now ranks sixth on the all-time U.S. endurance list, and second all-time for...
NASA astronaut hopes for smooth ride home after his wild ride 22 years ago NASA is preparing for a series of simulation missions called the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, which will involve three one-year missions simulating missions to Mars and the moon. Teams of four crew mem...
Each of these purposeful passengers aboard Orion inform astronaut working conditions and safety, helping NASA and its partners better prepare for – and minimize – the potentially harmful effects from deep space missions for space travel farther from Earth, and longer in duration, than ever before....