In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space Shuttle programme chipped away at one of Nasa's blind spots.

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 ...

African American astronaut Mae Jemison, left, smiles as suit technician Sharon McDougle performs an unpressurized and pressurized leak check on her spacesuit prior to the STS-47 Spacelab-J mission on ...

Blast off into herstory at the New York Hall of Science. NYSCI has debuted a new exhibition, Imaging Women in the Space Age , which highlights the accomplishments of American women astronauts through ...

US astronaut, doctor and engineer Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to go into space in 1992. She was one of seven ...

Learn about Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, and Eileen Collins, some of the pioneering women at NASA who were among the first to suit up for spaceflight. Valerie Neal Sally Ride at the Lyndon B. Johnson ...

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 ...

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson added to her record-breaking career by becoming the oldest woman in space. Her mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in ...

McArthur launched on two spaceflights, logging 213 days in orbit across her nearly 25 years, and held leadership positions at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The newly released 2025 Fortune 500 CEO list underscores the significant disparities Black women continue to face in corporate America. This year's list, which ranks U.S. companies by revenue and ...

"The book Lady Astronauts, Lady Engineers, and Naked Ladies is a gender history of the American space community and by extension a social history of American society in the twentieth century during ...

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 ...