NASA astronaut application pool reached 18300 record, more than doubling the astronaut application record of 1978. The U.S. space agency is set to start training in mid 2017 with a new hopeful generation of astronauts, highly skilled and dedicated. Picking eight to fourteen candidates of the immense pool of applications counting 18,300 wannabe astronauts is a titanic task. … [Read more...]
NASA Plans to Leave the ISS Behind
NASA plans to leave the ISS behind as the U.S. space agency is weighing long term budgets while planning to move into the moon’s orbit. The announcement was made by William Gerstenmaier, NASA’s chief of human spaceflight during an advisory panel meeting. And it makes perfect cost-gain sense. NASA plans to leave the ISS behind, slashing any future successor to the … [Read more...]
