Selected as part of Nasa's 23rd astronaut class in 2021, Menon graduated as an astronaut in 2024. Since then, he has been preparing intensively for his first spaceflight.

Man on the moon 50 years later: Luna 15 The space race was still going on between the U.S. and the Soviet Union even as Apollo 11 astronauts were on the lunar surface.

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore are set to return to Earth on March 16 after a nine-month extension aboard the ISS.

Scientists are using the Barringer Meteor Crater near Winslow to test equipment that might one day fly to the Moon.