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This Historian Interviewed Nearly Every Woman Astronaut and Learned How They Redefined NASA Forever
For most of NASA’s history, space was a man’s domain, a boys’ club in orbit. The first astronauts were all military test pilots, white men trained to push the envelope of flight, not question ...
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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 she retired in 2019, she wasn’t yet ready to go into full-time leisure ...
The 10 astronaut candidates, six of them women, will begin two years of training before becoming eligible for missions to low-Earth orbit and perhaps one day to the moon and Mars. By Kenneth Chang ...
JUPITER — On the second anniversary of Jupiter native Kellie Gerardi making the trip to space, the town has seen fit for all to celebrate, declaring Nov. 2 "Kellie Gerardi Day." Gerardi was the 90th ...
Little Elm native Rebecca Lawler has been selected as an astronaut candidate for NASA. The former Navy and test pilot was chosen from a pool of over 8,000 applicants after applying three times. She ...
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