On Sept. 12, 1992, NASA astronaut Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to go to space. In NASA's early days, women and people of color were never selected to go to space. NASA didn't ...

Learn about Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, and Eileen Collins, some of the pioneering women at NASA who were among the first to ...

Find out how NASA’s astronaut selection process has evolved.

Monday marks 35 years since Sally Ride took one giant leap for women everywhere. Ride became the first American woman in space on June 18, 1983. Valentina Tereshkov of the Soviet Union had become the ...

NASA has selected its next round of astronaut candidates, or ASCANs, from a pool of 8,000 candidates. The final selection of ...

Katya Echazarreta made history in June when she became the first Mexican-born woman to travel into outer space. The 27-year-old electrical engineer was aboard the June 4 flight of the Blue Origin as a ...

The first woman to pilot and command a NASA space shuttle was in Tulsa on Thursday. Eileen Collins was at the Tulsa Air and ...

LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- A stretch of the 101 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley will be renamed in honor of Encino native Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. A resolution passed by the state ...

McArthur launched on two spaceflights, logging 213 days in orbit across her nearly 25 years, and held leadership positions at ...

California girl -- 40-Love, Sally -- Wait! -- Thirty-five new guys -- First -- Reentry -- Explosions -- New territory -- Down to Earth -- Sally Ride science -- Duty ...

NASA’s next class of 10 astronaut candidates includes more women than men for the first time in the space agency’s more than ...