JOHNSON SPACE CENTER

The members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission discussed their 156 days aboard the International Space Station during a news conference on Wednesday at Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NASA officials hold a news conference at Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss what the Orion capsule has next ahead of it.

NASA has picked 10 new astronauts, half of them military pilots, as it looks ahead to the moon and Mars.

After leading Kennedy Space Center for more than a decade, Robert “Bob” Cabana is taking on a new role at NASA headquarters as associate administrator.

There are far fewer flight directors than astronauts but they are at the forefront of human spaceflight without ever leaving Earth. Flight directors are in charge of Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, overseeing human spaceflight. The agency has employed 101 flight director’s in the program’s history, 19 have been women. This year, the new class of flight directors was majority female. In that role, Turett said she worked closely with flight directors which helped her decide to want to become one.

The two NASA astronauts returned to Earth on Sunday in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown carried out by Elon Musk's SpaceX company. Two days after returning from the International Space Station, NASA’s Bob Behnken described in vivid detail their wild ride home. “Once we descended a little bit into the atmosphere, the Dragon really, it came alive,” Behnken said from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. SpaceX became the first private company to send astronauts into orbit with the May 30 liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, ending a nine-year launch drought from home soil for NASA astronauts. It was the first splashdown for NASA astronauts in 45 years.