NASA has opened applications for new astronauts for the first time since 2024. The US space agency announced the recruitment drive on November 7, inviting eligible Americans to apply to join its astronaut team. NASA opens applications for new astronauts as it prepares for future Moon and Mars missions. (AFP) NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said … Read more
Three NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have cast their votes in the 2026 US midterm elections, even though they are hundreds of miles above Earth. Anil Menon, Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney filled out electronic ballots and sent them securely to election officials in Harris County, Texas. A still image taken from … Read more
Some tiny passengers became astronauts. They rode around the Moon on Artemis I, and they came back having grown. According to a NASA Task Book report, all 20 fungus samples on the flight showed growth when they were examined after returning to Earth. The samples included a black mold, Aspergillus niger, and three mutant lab-made … Read more
A rock musician working at a computer might seem an unlikely figure in an asteroid-sampling mission, but Brian May brought a specialist skill to Nasa’s search for a place to land on Bennu. The Queen guitarist, who also holds a doctorate in astrophysics, helped scientists turn spacecraft photographs into three-dimensional views of the asteroid’s rough … Read more
Margaret Hamilton, the pioneering computer scientist who led software development for NASA’s Apollo program and helped build the technology that took humans to the moon, has died at the age of 90. Margaret Hamilton, the pioneering computer scientist who led software development for NASA’s Apollo program has died at the age of 90. (X/@MIT) Hamilton … Read more
The seeds were being carried by teacher-turned-astronaut Barbara Morgan, who was finally making her long-awaited journey into space after a 22-year wait A seed does not look like much. Tucked into a packet, it is barely noticeable, carrying the promise of a plant in a form that seems almost impossibly small. But in 2007, millions … Read more
Jessica Watkins is all set to return to space, this time as commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station. The geologist-turned-astronaut will lead a four-member international crew targeted to launch on 1st October. NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins is set to command the SpaceX Crew 13 mission to the International Space Station … Read more
Luke Delaney is preparing to take the biggest leap of his career, trading the test-pilot cockpit for a seat aboard a spacecraft. He is set to make his first journey into space as the pilot of SpaceX’s Crew 13 mission to the International Space Station on 1st October. NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney … Read more
A former NASA engineer claims he has found a way to overcome Earth’s gravity, and all ears have perked up. Exodus Propulsion Technologies, a private company co-founded by Charles Buhler, an electrostatics specialist has made the claim, according to a report by Popular Mechanics. With Buhler having worked for NASA and Kennedy Space Centre, his … Read more
Long before astronauts ever plant a seed on the Moon or Mars, Nasa has been testing a much simpler question here on Earth’s doorstep: what happens when a corn seed germinates with no gravity to tell it which way to grow? Back in the early 1990s, researchers flew dry corn kernels aboard the space shuttle, … Read more