Astronauts4Hire and the National AeroSpace Training and Research (NASTAR®) Center are proud to announce they have signed a services agreement for NASTAR Center Space Training and to collaborate on developing commercial astronaut training programs.

Astronauts4Hire (A4H) Training Officer Dr. Erik Seedhouse has written a book titled Astronauts for Hire: The Emergence of the Commercial Astronaut Corps.

Astronauts4Hire and partner company Vital Space will test a new biometric monitoring system designed for use by spaceflight participants on a May 2012 reduced gravity parabolic flight campaign in Houston, Texas.