Kartavya Kant Tiwari

NASA has released its 2025 Astronaut Candidate (ASCAN) with ten new astronaut candidates selected out of more than 8,000 applicants in the United States. The agency 24 24th class since 1959 is a historical one, with a majority of women, the first time in agency history. The chosen individuals will also take close to two years of training before they can be allowed to make missions to the low Earth orbit, lunar missions under Artemis, and perhaps crew missions to Mars. Class Composition and Backgrounds According to NASA, the 2025 astronaut candidates represent a diverse group of knowledge and experience. Ten of them include geologist Dr. Lauren Edgar, who contributed to the formulation of Artemis science objectives; Anna Menon, one of the former SpaceX operations engineers and a private astronaut; military test pilots Adam Fuhrmann and Cameron Jones; and physician Imelda Muller. The other members are engineers, flight surgeons and planetary scientists. Of the candidates, 6 are women, an...