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How Far American Women Astronauts Have Soared Since Sally Ride Took Her Historic Spaceflight
For 30 years, Valerie Neal curated the human spaceflight artifact collections at the National Air and Space Museum. But after ...
A new investigation into the physiological toll of spaceflight has revealed that male and female astronauts exhibit different ...
Jupiter native Kellie Gerardi became the 90th woman to visit space on a Virgin Galactic flight in 2023. The Town of Jupiter ...
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 ...
Two NASA astronauts have ventured outside the International Space Station to conduct a rare all-female spacewalk. When astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers emerged around 9 a.m. Thursday, May 1, ...
NASA’s Class of 1978, ‘represent the most competent, talented, and experienced people available to us today.’ ...
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 ...
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'It's harder to be a parent than a space shuttle commander', trailblazing Nasa pilot tells BBC
"As the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle, I worked very hard at that because I didn't want people to say, 'Oh look, the woman has made a mistake'. Because it wasn't just about me, it was about ...
Once a trailblazing astronaut, NASA’s spacecraft commander Eileen Collins is now making headlines as her new documentary on ...
Kathryn Sullivan said spacesuits for a women were a problem in the 1980s. For the first time in U.S. history, an all-woman team of astronauts — Anne McClain and Christina Koch — were scheduled to step ...
Dr. Mae Jemison encourages young girls to dream big and never doubt themselves. Dr. Mae Jemison, the first black woman in outer space, fell in love with science at an early age. Decades later, she's ...
Is outer space a man's domain? You might think so in Germany, where the country's 11 astronauts have all been men. They also dominate mission control at the German Space Operations Center, although ...
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