Space exploration in the backyard, on a budget – how NASA simulates conditions in space without blasting off

A planetary scientist who has participated in analog missions describes their value for planning space exploration – and ...

NASA’s next Moonship reaches last stop before launch pad

The next stop was a nearby building where the Launch Abort System was installed on the Orion spacecraft. The tower-like abort ...
India West

The Menons Make History: Anna Joins NASA’s 2025 Astronaut Class

HOUSTON, TX — Anna Menon, recently a mission specialist on SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn flight, has been selected for NASA’s 2025 astronaut class, marking another milestone in a career already filled with ...
Futurism

Whistleblowers Say NASA Is Poised to Kill an Astronaut

NASA whistleblowers claim that President Donald Trump’s drastic changes to the space agency are imperiling safety to such a degree that insiders have become “very concerned that we’re going to see an ...
The Daily Illini

NASA welcomes 2025 astronaut class, UI alum Cameron Jones

In 2012, Cameron Jones earned his bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University. Monday, NASA announced that he was one of 10 chosen applicants joining its newest astronaut candidate ...
WFAA8

NASA astronaut candidates announced: 2 have North Texas connections

LITTLE ELM, Texas — NASA this week announced 10 astronaut candidates chosen from more than 8,000 applicants from across the U.S. and at least two have North Texas connections. The astronaut candidates ...
CNET

NASA Is Sending Astronauts to Circle the Moon in February 2026: What to Know

It's been more than 50 years since astronauts last went to the moon, and yet few NASA missions stir the kind of excitement that the Apollo program once did. But now, NASA has new moon plans. The ...
Times Union

Copake Falls native among 10 chosen for NASA’s newest astronaut class

COPAKE — One of a handful of Americans selected as part of NASA’s 24th astronaut class hails from a small Columbia County hamlet on the Massachusetts border. Imelda Muller, 34, was born on Long Island ...
WLKY

One of NASA’s newest astronaut candidates is a North Oldham graduate

CAMPBELL, AND BIKE RACKS. NASA IS BEGINNING THE NEXT ERA OF SPACE EXPLORATION, AND AN OLDHAM COUNTY NATIVE IS AMONG THE NEWEST RECRUITS. JOYCE OGIRRI WAS IN GOSHEN TODAY TO SEE HOW HER OLD KENTUCKY ...
Space.com

'This is how I'm going to land': New NASA astronaut candidate's helicopter skills could come in handy on the moon

"Every flight is almost a test flight … you're going out into the unknown." New NASA astronaut candidate Ben Bailey thinks that his 2,000 flight hours here on Earth might come in handy during a moon ...
The Journal News

Copake Falls woman Imelda Muller becomes NASA astronaut candidate

A member of NASA's 2025 astronaut candidate class is from New York's Hudson Valley, the agency revealed during a ceremony at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on Monday, Sept. 22.
The Burlington Free Press

UVM alum Imelda Muller named to NASA’s new astronaut class

Dr. Imelda Muller, a 2017 graduate of the University of Vermont's Larner College of Medicine, has been selected as one of NASA's 10 new astronaut candidates. Muller, 34, was chosen from nearly 8,000 ...