News Archive / Tagged: Human Spaceflight

• NASA and India to cooperate on human space exploration

  Derek RichardsonJune 23rd, 2023

  NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation are set to cooperate on a joint mission to the International Space Station next year, according to the White House.

• Orbital space tourism poised to take off later this year

  Theresa CrossMay 26th, 2021

  Within a span of about six months, a dozen new spaceflight participants could fly into orbit on four space tourism flights beginning as early as September.

• Science journalist outlines challenges of settling the Moon and Mars

  Laurel KornfeldApril 16th, 2021

  Human settlement of the Moon and Mars will require overcoming numerous challenges, including living in low gravity and protecting people from radiation.

• Virgin Galactic begins Astronaut Readiness Program

  Cullen DesforgesNovember 21st, 2019

  The commercial space industry is one step closer toward achieving its goal of sending paying customers to suborbit.

• Holly Ridings named as NASA’s new chief flight director

  Derek RichardsonSeptember 19th, 2018

  NASA's human spaceflight operations are led by flight directors from the Mission Control Center at Johnson Space Center in Houston. The U.S. space agency just named a new chief flight director.