For 30 years, Valerie Neal curated the human spaceflight artifact collections at the National Air and Space Museum. But after ...

For most of NASA’s history, space was a man’s domain, a boys’ club in orbit. The first astronauts were all military test ...

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 ...

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 ...

African American astronaut Mae Jemison, left, smiles as suit technician Sharon McDougle performs an unpressurized and pressurized leak check on her spacesuit prior to the STS-47 Spacelab-J mission on ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA introduced its newest astronauts Monday, 10 scientists, engineers and test pilots chosen from more than 8,000 applicants to help explore the moon and possibly Mars.

Among the trailblazing women, those who had long aspired to spaceflight learned to fly airplanes in hopes of improving their ...

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 ...

The president of American Girl called Luciana "a champion of STEM." — -- American Girl's 2018 girl of the year is Luciana Vega, an 11-year-old "aspiring astronaut who dreams of being the first ...

SpaceX writes that the next-generation Artemis Moon missions are about laying the foundation for building a permanent ...