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 ...

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 ...

Akron schoolgirl, a whiz in math and science, grew up to become a brilliant engineer, a pioneer astronaut and the second ...

In October 2019, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir exited the International Space Station and replaced a controller regulating ...

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 ...

Saudi Arabian astronaut Rayyanah Barnawi reached the stars and made history on May 21. As part of the SpaceX Ax-2 mission, the 34-year-old became the first woman from her country to reach space. She ...

Black women have made more strides in outer space than they have in corporate America. The newly released 2025 Fortune 500 CEO list underscores the significant disparities Black women continue to face ...