As India prepares to send its second astronaut, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, to space aboard the Axiom 4 mission, the spotlight turns to those who have already made the journey beyond Earth.

I found that it was hard for me to ignore that urge, that calling, to go into diplomacy,” she said. Sometimes career paths ...

However, NASA, with the backing of key congressional leaders, has held an iron grip on having its own heavy-lift launcher and ...

There was no Internet on which one could peruse the available horological options from myriad brands; indeed, apart from, say, a mail-order catalogue or a piece of print advertising folded away in the ...

The agency makes this clear on its human spaceflight page, stating: "The FAA no longer designates anyone as an ‘astronaut.’ In addition, the FAA does not define where space begins." ...

For many, the day doesn't truly begin until that first sip of coffee. But what happens when you're orbiting 400 kilometres above Earth, where gravity refuses to play along? NASA astronaut Don Pettit ...

An innovative astronaut missed the smell of his morning coffee so much while on board the International Space Station that he invented a creative solution. NASA astronaut Don Pettit created the ...

An astronaut has shown how you drink a cup of coffee — in space. NASA spaceman Don Pettit demonstrated the tricky task of sipping from a special mug in microgravity on the International Space ...

An astronaut has shown how you drink a cup of coffee - in space. NASA spaceman Don Pettit demonstrated the tricky task of sipping from a special mug in microgravity on the International Space ...

NEEDHAM - Massachusetts native and astronaut Suni Williams said she's "trying to remember what it's like to walk" after being stuck in space for almost seven months. Williams on Monday was ...

This dataset makes up the largest sample of cognitive performance data from professional astronauts published to date. "We show that there is no evidence of any significant cognitive impairment or ...