"The first 20 women or so ... couldn't even imagine the reality or the possibility of becoming an astronaut except as they ...

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 ...

"The book Lady Astronauts, Lady Engineers, and Naked Ladies is a gender history of the American space community and by extension a social history of American society in the twentieth century during ...

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 ...

Blast off into herstory at the New York Hall of Science. NYSCI has debuted a new exhibition, Imaging Women in the Space Age , which highlights the accomplishments of American women astronauts through ...

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 ...

Find out how NASA’s astronaut selection process has evolved. Diane Tedeschi Marsha Ivins (at Florida's Kennedy Space Center in 1995) flew on five space shuttle missions, logging more than 1,300 hours ...

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 ...

A statistic that will always astound me and other space enthusiasts is that NASA has had around 360 astronaut candidates, and to this day, less than 100 of them are women. Thankfully, some good news ...

Lord Miller, the production company led by Academy Award winners Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, is producing a film based on “The Six: The Extraordinary Story of the Grit and Daring of America’s ...