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As a 12-year-old, he watched the Sputnik launch, and that was when he decided to work in the space industry and to try his best to become an astronaut. "All my energy was focused," he says ...

And she was standing there, right where our professors stood every day. A woman. And an astronaut. Growing up in the 1960s, the image I’d had of astronauts—or any kind of explorer—couldn’t ...

Some readers might have an opportunity to change that though, as the European Space Agency have announced a fresh round of astronaut recruitment that will open at the end of March. Sadly for our ...

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, the 58-year-old from Iowa farm country who spent a record-breaking 665 days in space, retired from the space agency on Friday. "I have hit my radiation limit ...

In 2022, she was one of 17 people selected from 22,500 applicants to become a reservist astronaut for the European Space Agency (ESA). Selection was a lengthy and arduous process that involved ...

Before becoming an astronaut, Young was a naval officer and aviator and had been to the test pilot school. He mentioned that he had to learn to fly helicopters while training for the Moon landing.

A trip to the Moon means flying, and boy was I good at flying. So the US government asked if I wanted to become an astronaut. After seven years the guys on NASA’s Apollo mission were ready to ...