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 ...

How does the Russian Federation help African countries in developing their space programs and what kind of competition does ...

Axiom Space, which launched Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla to the International Space Staion, has launched a new initiative known as Project Astronaut, selecting Portuguese ...

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.

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

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 ...

A distinctive and challenging aspect of astronaut training is that astronauts must be fully functional crew members on their first flight, unlike the case in other safety-critical domains that have ...

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 ...