NASA Astronaut Corps

Anyone Can Apply To NASA For The Next Moon Mission

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Photo: NASA/Ben Smegelsky NASA is looking for its next class of astronauts as the space agency ramps up its efforts to establish a permanent human presence on the Moon. While the public is free to apply online until April 16, the strict requirements mean that only a small sliver of the population has the flight … Read more

Don’t Worry Everyone, NASA Found The Missing Space Tomato

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For the last eight months, unbeknownst to most of the world, a massive scandal in the space community has been brewing. A tomato, grown as part of NASA’s VEG-05 challenge to cultivate food in a zero-gravity environment, went missing. The resulting witch hunt accused astronaut Frank Rubio of having eaten the tomato under his care. … Read more