NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who famously stayed in space for an extended nine-month visit after problems with an experimental capsule, has retired after 27 years, NASA said Tuesday ...

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 ...

On 1978, NASA selected its eighth and most diverse class of astronauts yet. The Astronaut Class of 1978, also known as the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first six women in newly issued, incompletely adorned astronaut jumpsuits, 1978: (front, left to right) Sally Ride, Rhea ...

NASA shows how space takes a toll on men and women differently. — -- With an upcoming mission to Mars, NASA is studying the ways that living in space affects both men and women. In a study ...

"The book Lady Astronauts, Lady Engineers, and Naked Ladies is a gender history of the American space community and by extension a social history of American society in the twentieth century during ...