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

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...

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

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

Anil Menon is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force, emergency medicine physician and NASA astronaut. He was a flight surgeon at NASA and...

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...

pilots) met the USAF spaceflight criteria by exceeding the altitude of 50 miles (80 km), thus qualifying the pilots for astronaut status; some pilots also...

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

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

For all other spaceflight activities, see 2024 in spaceflight. For launches in the second half of 2024, see List of spaceflight launches in July–December...

for (and in some cases, performed) a spaceflight. It is the least-awarded qualification badge of the United States military. The first astronaut badges...

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

successfully landed 318 times in 329 attempts. A total of 42 boosters have flown multiple missions, with a record of 21 missions by a booster. SpaceX has also...

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...

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...

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...

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

This year saw Alper Gezeravcı become the first Turkish astronaut, as a crew member on Axiom Mission 3. Belarus also had its first citizen reach space, when...

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

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

and carried NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken to the International Space Station in the first crewed orbital spaceflight launched from the...

1958) is an astronaut, test pilot and commercial astronaut with dual nationality, American and Spanish; a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one...

Air Force officer and a former astronaut. He holds the rank of colonel. He flew as pilot on two Space Shuttle missions, STS-27 and STS-35. Gardner was...

conceived in 1961 to extend spaceflight capability in support of Apollo. Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong...

Gemini astronauts, Scott was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1993. Spaceflight portal United States portal List of spaceflight records...

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...

Anders, one of the first three astronauts to fly to and orbit the Moon. He then commanded the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970 which, after a critical failure...

of an American spaceflight mission, the first ESA astronaut, the first female astronaut of Indian origin, and the first Israeli astronaut. At the end of...

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...