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 ...

For most of NASA’s history, space was a man’s domain, a boys’ club in orbit. The first astronauts were all military test pilots, white men trained to push the envelope of flight, not question ...

At 43, this seasoned helicopter pilot is about to become the 11th French person – and only the second French woman – to travel to space. She will spend eight months aboard the International Space ...

Four astronauts are travelling through space towards the International Space Station after a successful launch by Nasa and ...

Jenee Fox was working out four years ago when an audio book about space suits – and the differences among those made in America, Europe and Russia – piqued her attention. She had a casual interest in ...

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NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson added to her record-breaking career by becoming the oldest woman in space. Her mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in ...

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