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

The American military operated under a "don't ... Whatever you think is right is fine with me." As the first woman in space, Ride already had to deal with a media frenzy and endure questions ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jemison was on her way to becoming the first woman of colour and first African-American woman in space. Born in 1956 in Decatur, Alabama, Mae Carol Jemison moved to Chicago with her family aged three.

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 ...

Here's why NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are stuck, but not stranded, at the International Space Station ...