Eileen Collins reflects on her time as the first female not only to pilot but also command a spacecraft. Here's her ...

For a quarter of a century, humans have continuously occupied the International Space Station. Here's a look at how far we've ...

McArthur launched on two spaceflights, logging 213 days in orbit across her nearly 25 years, and held leadership positions at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

On Oct. 7, 2002, the space shuttle Atlantis launched from Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-112. This mission brought the ...

On July 23, 1999, the space shuttle Columbia launched into orbit to deploy the Chandra X-ray Observatory. This space telescope can detect X-ray radiation emitted by things in the universe that are hot ...

In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space Shuttle programme chipped away at one of Nasa's blind spots.

Joan Higginbotham, who spent 12 days aboard the International Space Station and on a NASA Shuttle mission, now promotes STEM subjects in her role at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex ...

US astronaut, doctor and engineer Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to go into space in 1992. She was one of seven ...

NASA's 2025 astronaut class doesn't seem to include any Black recruits, a first in 40 years at the space agency. Officials would not discuss it.