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...

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

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...

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 missions from Musk's SpaceX in $1.4 billion deal". 31 August 2022. Howell, Elizabeth (2 June 2022). "NASA to buy 5 more astronaut missions from...

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

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...

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...

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...

"Station mission planning reveals new target Commercial Crew launch dates". NASA Spaceflight. Retrieved 20 June 2019. "Astronauts fly with SpaceX in landmark...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

his first spaceflight as command pilot of Gemini 8 in March 1966, becoming NASA's first civilian astronaut to fly in space. During this mission with pilot...

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...

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...

other suborbital spaceflight providers in the future. In 2012, Citizens in Space reported they had begun training three citizen astronaut candidates and...

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...

Spaceflight began in the 20th century following theoretical and practical breakthroughs by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert H. Goddard, and Hermann Oberth...

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...

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

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...

Space Shuttle crews List of Space Shuttle missions Timeline of Space Shuttle missions List of human spaceflights chronologically Challenger flag Challenger...

missions, the first of which was STS-58 in 1993, and his most recent spaceflight was STS-127 in 2009. Wolf also took part in a long-duration mission aboard...