Credit: Axiom Space SYDNEY—Axiom Space has unveiled a pilot program to provide personalized training for prospective human spaceflight participants interested in conducting microgravity research. Its ...

A new private human spaceflight training centre is set to open in the UAE, the region’s first licensed private facility focused on astronaut readiness, space medicine and analogue mission simulations.

(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 ...

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 ...

Carmel-based Republic Airways Holdings Inc.’s flight-training subsidiary, LIFT Academy, has landed a contract to provide specialized flight training to NASA astronaut candidates in Galveston, Texas.

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 ...

ISRO Astronauts: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is preparing to open its astronaut programme to ordinary ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...