In 1992, Mae Jemison became the first black women astronaut while Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle in 1995, later becoming the first female commander of a Space ...

Kilrain, then known as Susan Still, steered the space shuttle Columbia safely ... Related: Pioneering women in space: A gallery of astronaut firsts Saudi Arabia's control of women has been extreme ...

While one is preparing for another launch, two former NASA astronauts were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.

"My hope is that space will be an opportunity for us to come together as a people," Dr. Bernard Harris Jr. saysNEED TO KNOWDr ...

Women interested in space exploration ... and astronaut Judith Resnick die with five other astronauts when the Challenger space shuttle explodes. Resnick was the fourth woman, second American ...

Many years before Susan Kilrain became a U.S. Navy TA-4J Skyhawk flight instructor and the second female NASA astronaut to pilot a space shuttle, her dad supported her youthful dreams during an ...

For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova's solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will enter orbit with only women aboard ... pilot and command a space shuttle.

"Since there were no female astronauts at the time at ... After graduating with her Ph.D. in Biochemistry, and the space shuttle flying astronauts of all backgrounds, Whitson applied to become ...