Out of over 600 people who have traveled to space, only 100 have been women. In 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel to space. Kellie Gerardi became the 90th woman to launch ...

NASA astronaut Sally Ride (1951 - 2012) in the interior of the Challenger space shuttle during the STS-41-G mission, October 1984. In 1983 she became the first American woman in space on the STS-7 ...

Remember when Olivia Munn asked, “What are you doing up there? What’s the point? Is it historic that you guys are going on a ride?” of Blue Origin’s all-female space crew? Well, now that it has ...

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 ...

" I recognize that going into space is something that is an incredibly privileged thing to do. I always told myself that if I were to have that chance, I would try to use it to uplift others." For ...

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 ...

Gazing out the window of a rocket at Earth’s glistening blue perimeter, Emily Calandrelli’s mind was likely far from away from the trolls that inhabit the internet on this planet. But less than 24 ...

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