In 2021, NASA released a fictional graphic novel about a pioneering astronaut who becomes the first woman to step foot on the moon, Commander Callie Rodriguez, alongside her diverse crew — this novel ...

When the Cold War heated up in 1946, the U.S. and the Soviet Union took their rivalry from Earth to the stars. Sputnik, the ...

NASA dropped Epps from a mission in 2018 without explanation. Now she's poised to become the first Black woman to live aboard the space station.

In 2026, the universe as viewed by Earthlings will become even more dynamic. The U.S. plans to send astronauts back to the ...

A new book explores the experiences of all 61 U.S. women astronauts Valerie Neal NASA astronaut and Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Kate Rubins sequences DNA aboard the International Space Station for ...

The team includes the first woman and first person of color on a moon mission. NASA and the Canadian Space Agency announced Monday the four astronauts who will partake in the next Artemis mission and ...

ENFIELD, Conn. -- Lego has unveiled a set of figures celebrating the women of NASA. The 231-piece set features Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut, and Mae Jemison, the first black woman ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nobody will be giving out any medals now that Blue Origin’s eleventh crewed space flight is in the books. The brief suborbital sojourn lifted off April 14, at 8:30 a.m. CDT and landed just 11 minutes ...