Founded in 1990, the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame is part of the Heroes & Legends attraction at the Kennedy Space Center ...

Veteran NASA astronauts Bernard Harris and Peggy Whitson were announced as the 2025 U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame inductees.

Mike Mullane, author of "Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut." As a 12-year-old, he watched the Sputnik launch, and that was when he decided to work in the space ...

NASA astronauts must pass a grueling application process before being selected. Their annual salaries are determined using a government pay scale at two grades: GS-12 and GS-13. According to the ...

It is possible that astronaut could be Lt. (SEAL) Jonny Kim. In 2002, Kim decided to leave his hometown of Santa Monica, California to enlist in the Navy and join the ranks of Naval Special ...

A little more than a year later, Rubins, already a biomedical researcher and astronaut, received a direct commission to the rank of major in the Army Reserve through training at Fort Sill ...