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 ...

Sally Ride was the first American woman to go to space in 1983. And for a while, it seemed like she was the most famous person on Earth and in space. She dominated headlines. She was all over TV. And ...

For 30 years, Valerie Neal curated the human spaceflight artifact collections at the National Air and Space Museum. But after she retired in 2019, she wasn’t yet ready to go into full-time leisure ...

A day in the life of an astronaut in space, up close.

The 10 astronaut candidates, six of them women, will begin two years of training before becoming eligible for missions to low-Earth orbit and perhaps one day to the moon and Mars. By Kenneth Chang ...

JUPITER — On the second anniversary of Jupiter native Kellie Gerardi making the trip to space, the town has seen fit for all to celebrate, declaring Nov. 2 "Kellie Gerardi Day." Gerardi was the 90th ...

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 ...