Eileen Collins made history as the first woman to pilot and command a spacecraft - but despite her remarkable achievements, ...

ALMATY – The first-ever space journey by a Kazakh woman was marked by Danna Karagussova, who made history by joining the crew ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Sept. 12, 1992, NASA astronaut Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to go to space. In NASA's early days, women and people of color were never selected to go to space. NASA didn't ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- After a half-century of waiting, Wally Funk -- who trained for NASA's Mercury program but was denied the opportunity to go to space -- is finally getting her time amongst the ...

Monday marks 35 years since Sally Ride took one giant leap for women everywhere. Ride became the first American woman in space on June 18, 1983. Valentina Tereshkov of the Soviet Union had become the ...