Astronaut

Industry and Technology Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacır has announced that the country's second astronaut, Tuva Cihangir Atasever, will embark on a suborbital research flight on June 8 from a U.S. facility.

Atasever was previously designated as the backup astronaut for the country's first astronaut, Alper Gezeravcı.

The country has stated that it wants its astronauts to stay on the moon for long periods once it establishes a lunar research station

The NASA search focuses on finding four individuals who embody the spirit and skills of astronauts

With the successful launch of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in the U.S. state of Florida, Türkiye's first astronaut Alper Gezeravcı's Axiom-3 space mission has officially begun.

NASA and most of its international partners intend to operate the ISS until 2030, by which time its basic structure will become too fatigued to continue to host astronauts safely

Bulgarian neurologist Ognyan Kolev has contributed significantly to one of NASA's most extensive studies, recently published in the esteemed Journal of Vestibular Research.

In a first for the nation, students from a public school in the western province of İzmir were able to connect to the space station via radio and pose questions to astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli.

China plans to land astronauts on the moon before 2030, which would be another advance in what's increasingly seen as a new space race.

The U.S. aims to put astronauts back on the lunar surface by the end of 2025.

Deputy Director of the Chinese Manned Space Agency Lin Xiqiang confirmed China's goal at a news conference yesterday but gave no specific date.

NASA unveiled the crew on April 3 for its first human mission to the Moon in more than 50 year, including the first woman and Black man to voyage into deep space.

Christina Koch, a NASA astronaut who holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, will be a mission specialist on next year's Artemis II flight around the Moon.

Astronauts lose decades' worth of bone mass in space that many do not recover even after a year back on Earth, researchers said on June 30, warning that it could be a "big concern" for future missions to Mars.