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 ...

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 ...

The deal will anchor joint projects with NASA until 2035, and is designed to expand already close cooperation on flagship ...

She worked on preparations for the second, third, and fourth shuttle missions, and was a Cape Crusader at the Kennedy Space ...

The spacewalk will now be done by one female and one male astronaut. The history-making, all-female spacewalk that was scheduled to happen on Friday, during Women’s History Month, has been canceled by ...

McClain and Ayers are both part of a SpaceX mission known as Crew-10 that reached the space station in March and paved the way for the Starliner astronauts to return home. NASA provided a livestream ...

These women broke boundaries and reached for the stars. Before spaceflight became more inclusive, a few extraordinary women broke through the stratosphere — and the barriers of history. The journey ...

In 1983, Sally Ride made global headlines as the first US woman in space and the third woman after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya. A new documentary, Sally, directed by ...

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 ...

French astronaut Sophie Adenot is preparing for her first mission to the International Space Station in February 2026, a trip ...