while preparing for costly, long-duration[clarification needed] spaceflight missions in which the performance objectives will be demanding, endurance will...

system during future missions such as Starship. After being accepted as an astronaut candidate, he left SpaceX in December 2021. In December 2021, Menon...

agreed to use the term "spaceflight participant" to distinguish those space travelers from professional astronauts on missions coordinated by those two...

launch in 2024, followed by crewed flight in 2024 on an HLVM3 rocket. Before the Gaganyaan mission announcement in August 2018, human spaceflight was not...

Kelly's first spaceflight was as pilot of Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-103 in December 1999. This was the third servicing mission to the Hubble...

without any direct human involvement. People trained for spaceflight are called astronauts (American or other), cosmonauts (Russian), or taikonauts (Chinese);...

spaceflight refers to spaceflight activities undertaken by non-governmental entities, such as corporations, individuals, or non-profit organizations....

astronaut. Specializing in aerospace medicine, he served as a flight surgeon for NASA before his selection as an astronaut and has played a role in developing...

NASA issues an astronaut badge to all civilian personnel who qualify as specialists on spaceflight missions. The badge is embroidered in either silver...

successfully landed 343 times in 355 attempts. A total of 42 boosters have flown multiple missions, with a record of 23 missions by a booster. SpaceX has also...

Astronaut training describes the complex process of preparing astronauts in regions around the world for their space missions before, during and after...

the US crewed spaceflight program. The STG was based at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, but reported organizationally to the Goddard...

through outer space. A space mission refers to a spaceflight intended to achieve an objective. Objectives for space missions may include space exploration...

"Station mission planning reveals new target Commercial Crew launch dates". NASA Spaceflight. Retrieved 20 June 2019. "Astronauts fly with SpaceX in landmark...

international space missions. It is based at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The first U.S. astronaut candidates were selected by NASA in 1959, for its...

missions. In preparing for such an expedition, important psychological, interpersonal, and psychiatric issues occurring in human spaceflight missions...

retired astronaut, and United States Navy captain. A member of the Democratic Party, he has been the junior U.S. senator from Arizona since 2020. In 2022...

This is a list of astronauts by year of selection: people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member...

For all other spaceflight activities, see 2024 in spaceflight. For launches in the first half of 2024, see List of spaceflight launches in January–June...

operations, and mission management. Missions could extend for longer periods depending on the focus of the spaceflight. Former NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson...

his first spaceflight as command pilot of Gemini 8 in March 1966, becoming NASA's first civilian astronaut to fly in space. During this mission with pilot...

of the second group of astronauts, the so-called "Next Nine", who were chosen to take part in the Gemini and Apollo missions. He was assigned as pilot...

2015). "NASA Selects Astronauts for First U.S. Commercial Spaceflights". nasa.gov. "NASA Assigns Crews to First Test Flights, Missions on Commercial Spacecraft"...

expected notable spaceflight events during the year 2026. In 2026, NASA is expected to launch the Artemis III mission, which will land astronauts near the south...

private crew of Axiom Mission 3. This year saw Alper Gezeravcı become the first Turkish astronaut, as a crew member on Axiom Mission 3. Belarus also had...

on a six-month study of 11 healthy astronauts. The results may influence long-term spaceflight, including a mission to the planet Mars, according to the...

Spaceflight began in the 20th century following theoretical and practical breakthroughs by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert H. Goddard, and Hermann Oberth...

NASA Astronaut Group 8 was a group of 35 astronauts announced on January 16, 1978. It was the first NASA selection since Group 6 in 1967, and was the largest...

other suborbital spaceflight providers in the future. In 2012, Citizens in Space reported they had begun training three citizen astronaut candidates and...

Emerge About Israeli Astronaut's Upcoming Space Mission "Axiom-1 mission all-private crew to make and carry history on space station". Portal: Spaceflight...