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.

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

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.

Twenty-eight Chinese astronauts have just completed a highly demanding cave-training mission designed to replicate the psychological and physical extremes of spaceflight. As reported by CGTN, the ...

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 ...

Two Pakistani astronauts, Muhammad Zeeshan Ali and Khurram Daud, have arrived in China for training as the first foreign participants in the manned space programme. After assessments, one may join a ...

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 ...