Kathryn Sullivan said spacesuits for a women were a problem in the 1980s. For the first time in U.S. history, an all-woman team of astronauts — Anne McClain and Christina Koch — were scheduled to step ...
Lord Miller, the production company led by Academy Award winners Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, is producing a film based on “The Six: The Extraordinary Story of the Grit and Daring of America’s ...
For 30 years, Valerie Neal curated the human spaceflight artifact collections at the National Air and Space Museum. But after she retired in 2019, she wasn’t yet ready to go into full-time leisure ...
For most of NASA’s history, space was a man’s domain, a boys’ club in orbit. The first astronauts were all military test pilots, white men trained to push the envelope of flight, not question ...
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 ...
The new novel "Atmosphere" starts in 1984 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Joan Goodwin is an astronaut, but her job this day is with mission control. She's tasked with being the only person ...
Like many American kids who grew up between 1981 and 2011, I dreamed of becoming an astronaut and orbiting the Earth in a Space Shuttle.