An alumna of the University of Colorado Boulder and a Kentucky native, Overcash was selected as one of 10 astronaut candidates from over 8,000 applications received for their Astronaut Class of 2025.

(Bloomberg) -- In just days, a group of astronauts — three Americans and one Canadian — is slated to fly roughly 5,000 miles past the far side of the moon, the farthest humans have ever traveled in ...

A Duke University graduate is an astronaut candidate with NASA. Anna Menon has previously been on a mission with Space X, and now she's in the middle of a two-year training program to prepare her for ...

Payload specialists in training for STS-51L take a break in shuttle emergency egress training in 1986. Left to right: Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe and Barbara Morgan. McAuliffe was selected as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The northern Colorado course was certified in August 2025 and will be part of flight training for future crewed missions to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew capsule, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral April 1 (Reuters) - ...