NASA astronaut Sally Ride (1951 - 2012) in the interior of the Challenger space shuttle during the STS-41-G mission, October 1984. In 1983 she became the first American woman in space on the STS-7 ...

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 ...

These women broke boundaries and reached for the stars. Before spaceflight became more inclusive, a few extraordinary women broke through the stratosphere — and the barriers of history. The journey ...

Jeff Bezos extends his arms to hug his fiancee, Lauren Sanchez, at the end of an all-female suborbital spaceflight, with Blue Origin trainer Sarah Knights standing by. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Six ...

"First published 2010"--T.p. verso. Introduction : Space for women : a problem deferred. It's about time : a brief history of women in space. Bottled up : inner and outer space in I dream of Jeannie.

The all-women crew of Blue Origin’s NS-31 made history Monday, April 14, when the six women on board—Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyễn, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn, and Lauren Sánchez—successfully ...

The star-studded, all-women Blue Origin NS-31 crew — including Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sánchez — took off from Texas on Monday. The trio, decked out in full glam, was joined by former NASA ...

Katy Perry can add another accomplishment to her long list of accolades: becoming an astronaut. The pop star, 40, was one of six women who launched into space during an all-women spaceflight on Monday ...

(CNN) — Blue Origin’s next crewed flight mission aboard its tourism rocket, expected to lift off this spring, will carry an all-female crew to space. Lauren Sánchez, a pilot, journalist and vice chair ...

He promised the stars… An 80-year-old woman in Japan lost all her life savings to a scammer posing as an astronaut who claimed to be stranded on a besieged spacecraft and needed money to buy oxygen, ...