and she became the first American woman to walk in space on October 11, 1984, outside the Challenger shuttle. After her days as an astronaut ended, Sullivan pursued her passion for oceanography ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

SALLY' is the story of pioneering astronaut Sally Ride, who was the first American woman to go to space. And it's also a love story about her 27-year-long romance with Tam O'Shaughnessy ...

Our new, free Women in Science: Space Tour explores the lives of women who've contributed to the study of ... This affinity for numbers led Katherine to break the barriers of gender and race, becoming ...

Madrid, Dec 11 (EFE).- “Not even the sky is the limit,” says American aerospace engineer Emily Calandrelli, the 100th woman to venture into space, calling on young girls to pursue their dreams ...

Sometimes, oftentimes, that has meant less space for others ... but also adapted to fit her sensibilities as a young American woman. “I am American, but I’m also South Asian,” she says.

In June 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina V. Tereshkova became the first woman to travel to space, but it would be 20 years before another woman would leave Earth. Astronaut Sally K. Ride became the ...