NASA shows how space takes a toll on men and women differently. — -- With an upcoming mission to Mars, NASA is studying the ways that living in space affects both men and women. In a study ...

Find out how NASA’s astronaut selection process has evolved. Diane Tedeschi Marsha Ivins (at Florida's Kennedy Space Center in 1995) flew on five space shuttle missions, logging more than 1,300 hours ...

Akron schoolgirl, a whiz in math and science, grew up to become a brilliant engineer, a pioneer astronaut and the second ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 13, 1978, NASA selected its eighth and most diverse class of astronauts yet. The Astronaut Class of 1978, also known as ...

From Valentina Tereshkova to Mae Jemison, here are the female astronauts you need to know about, who broke boundaries – and rules – to do what no women had done before. They say the sky’s the limit, ...

Black women have made more strides in outer space than they have in corporate America. The newly released 2025 Fortune 500 CEO list underscores the significant disparities Black women continue to face ...

Lunette, a company that makes reusable menstrual cups, has sent some into space to help female astronauts on long-term missions. The Lunette Period Cups are made of hypoallergenic medical-grade ...

NASA’s astronaut Sunita Williams, who holds the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman, took charge of the International Space Station Saturday, becoming only the second female commander in the ...