Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla has completed altitude exercises, a crucial part of his training for the Axiom-4 mission. These simulations mimic the low-pressure environment of ...

A Belgian sculptor credited with the "Fallen Astronaut" figurine left on the surface of the moon in 1971 has now fallen himself. Artist Paul Van Hoeydonck died on Saturday (May 3) at his home in ...

Don Pettit/NASA Supported by By Kenneth Chang Don Pettit, NASA’s oldest active astronaut, returned to Earth on April 20, the day he turned 70 years old. That concluded his fourth trip to space ...

But does she now count as an astronaut? The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines astronaut as "a person whose profession is to travel beyond the earth's atmosphere." But on a different, broader ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is carried to a medical tent shortly after he and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner landed in their Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft near the town of Zhezkazgan ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two cosmonaut colleagues will return to Earth this evening (April 19), and you can watch their homecoming live. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Pettit ...

A veteran NASA astronaut who flew to orbit more than seven months ago with two Russians is preparing to return to Earth. Don Pettit, who arrived Sept. 11, 2024 for his third-ever stint at the ...

Thanks to a number of exciting initiatives, it is now possible to sign up for “astronaut training”, an eye-opening and character-building experience for every person who takes part.

"The last FAA guidelines under the Commercial Space Astronaut Wings Program were clear: Crewmembers who travel into space must have 'demonstrated activities during flight that were essential to ...

Following a seven-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two Russian cosmonauts landed safely in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz spacecraft on Sunday ...

April 20 (UPI) --Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday as he returned to Earth from a seven-month stay at the International Space Station, during which he completed ...

National Geographic has revealed an official trailer for a documentary titled Sally, about astronaut Dr. Sally Ride ... and more of NASA's class of 1978: Anna Fisher, Kathy Sullivan, John Fabian ...