In America, we often hail Sally Ride as the first female astronaut. But the first woman in space was actually a Soviet ...

The deal will anchor joint projects with NASA until 2035, and is designed to expand already close cooperation on flagship ...

Two months ago, Sally Ride was literally in the clouds as the first American woman in space, but ever since she and the crew from the Space shuttle Challenger touched down, Sally Ride has been ...

Learn about Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, and Eileen Collins, some of the pioneering women at NASA who were among the first to suit up for spaceflight. Valerie Neal Sally Ride at the Lyndon B. Johnson ...

On Monday, Blue Origin’s New Shepard launch vehicle brought six women into space, roughly 62 miles above the earth’s surface, for the first all-women crewed flight since a solo mission in 1963. The ...

This week, a 10-minute rocket ride became a multi-day headline. Katy Perry reportedly sang “It’s A Wonderful World” and Gayle King beamed in zero gravity, as Lauren Sánchez—pilot, philanthropist and ...

In 1978, Ride and five other women became the first group of female astronauts in the U.S. A new book by a longtime curator of spaceflight artifacts explores the nearly five-decade history of women in ...

FORT SMITH -- The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith is inviting the public to an out of this world presentation next month. NASA's first science mission specialist and first Black woman in space, ...

Kathryn Sullivan said spacesuits for a women were a problem in the 1980s. For the first time in U.S. history, an all-woman team of astronauts — Anne McClain and Christina Koch — were scheduled to step ...

Note: This post is an Op-Ed and shares the author's personal views. If you want an idea of what performative pop feminism is under Donald Trump, look no further than the all-female Blue Origin flight.

The Mercury 13: The astronauts who never were -- Cosmonauts. Valentina Tereshkova: First in space -- Svetlana Savitskaya: No apron for her -- Elena Kondakova: Long-duration stay -- Yelena Serova: ...