The business of hurtling humans into space is getting routine on the Space Coast with the fourth flight of a SpaceX Crew ...

The NASA, JAXA and Roscosmos crew members set to launch next to the International Space Station arrived at Kennedy Space ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ...

An alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will command a SpaceX flight at the end of this month NASA said ...

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, commander of NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 mission, trains for her mission at a SpaceX facility in Hawthorne, California, ahead of her flight to the International Space Station.

Zena Cardman was with a group of close friends and eating breakfast tacos the day she got a phone call that would change the rest of her life. In late May, Cardman learned she had been chosen as ...

Cardman has earned numerous awards and honors, including an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2012-2017), Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium Fellowship s (2015-2016), Royster Society ...

Zena Cardman, a UNC alumna and astronaut candidate with NASA's 2017 class, poses for a potrait in front of Morehead Planetarium on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019. Cardman entered the cohort as one of 12 ...

Zena Cardman, an astronaut who holds two degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill, will make her first visit to space as early as this summer — and UNC graduates will get to hear from her before her launch.

Born in Urbana, Illinois, Zena Cardman calls Williamsburg, Va. home today. She graduated from UNC in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in biology, honors in poetry and minors in marine science ...

Zena Cardman suits up for neutral buoyancy training. It's called the Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston, a little bit outside of Johnson Space Center.

Cardman and the ten other astronauts are the first to join NASA since its Artemis program was announced. The program aims to send the first humans to the moon since 1972 in 2024, and to Mars in ...