Next month Nasa will send a new crew into space. And for the first time there will be a Native American woman aboard. Astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann, of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian ...

A US astronaut has become the first Native American woman in space following a Nasa launch on Wednesday, Marine Colonel Nicole Mann, 45, is one of four astronauts who blasted off from Florida at ...

Featuring archival footage filmed both on the ground and in space, along with new interviews with Ride's close friends and ...

June 6: A Russian, Valentina Tereshkova, becomes the first woman in space. The American program, which has drawn astronauts from active duty military pilots, employs no female astronauts.

Every time SpaceX, Blue Origin, NASA, or anyone else tests their rockets, Emily Carney is intensely interested.