Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in Earth orbit. Learn more about her life, career and ...

The U.S. Mint and Smithsonian American Women's History Museum have unveiled the last set of American Women Quarters, to ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

Americans feared the implications of the ... they beat us to a space walk ... the first woman in space, the first multiple crew in space." The Soviets kept their program under wraps, announcing ...

With almost 100% fertility control, women were able to postpone having children or space births to pursue ... fed into the new feminist critique of American society. Women started asking questions ...