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 ...
This spring, six women are taking a groundbreaking flight into space via Blue Origin, the American spaceflight company of billionaire entrepreneur and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Heading to space on ...
Jun. 17—Fewer than 100 women have flown to space, out of the around 700 astronauts that have made the trip. That's about 13% of space travelers. Female pioneers are attempting to change that statistic ...
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 ...
(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 ...
Nobody will be giving out any medals now that Blue Origin’s eleventh crewed space flight is in the books. The brief suborbital sojourn lifted off April 14, at 8:30 a.m. CDT and landed just 11 minutes ...
On April 14, six women flew to space aboard a Blue Origin rocket, marking the first female only space flight since 1963. Screengrab from Blue Origin, YouTube Six women recently hurtled into space ...
Discover What’s Streaming On: Jimmy Kimmel took some time early in Monday night’s Live opening monologue to talk about Jeff Bezos‘s Blue Origin rocket that launched earlier that morning in Van Horn, ...
Lower gravity. Higher radiation. No ER access. These are just a few of the challenges that humans face in outer space. Emily and Regina talk to a NASA astronaut (and astronaut scientist) about the ...