The Astronaut Scholarship is funded by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF), a nonprofit organization created by the Mercury 7 astronauts in 1984. The foundation strives to aid the U.S. in ...

McFall made headlines in 2022 when he became the world’s first disabled astronaut, joining ESA’s astronaut reserve team. Before this, he enjoyed international success as a sprinter — winning ...

Rejected from the RAF at 16, he headed to Cambridge University to study Physics in 1975, putting aspirations to become an astronaut slightly on the back-burner. “I went from a boarding school ...

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But on top of his sporting achievements, McFall—who has retired from athletics—today has the distinction of being the first para-astronaut to work with a space agency, the European Space Agency.

An Indian astronaut will fly to the International Space Station by April next year as part of the NASA-ISRO collaborative initiative, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said today.