But the first woman in space was actually a Soviet cosmonaut who beat out 400 applicants to pilot the Vostok 6 spacecraft in ...

The first German woman in space has fielded questions from students, hours after she launched into orbit on board a SpaceX ...

Dr. Mae Jemison, the first woman of color in space, shares wisdom and encouragement with "CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King ...

Hannah Berryman’s documentary “Spacewoman” chronicles the life and career of astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman to ...

Rabea Rogge became the first German woman to go into space aboard a SpaceX rocket flying directly over Earth's polar regions for the first time.

NASA websites no longer state that the Artemis 3 lunar mission will aim to land the first person of color and the first woman on the moon — a longstanding goal of the Artemis program that the agency ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls ...

Helping to launch the Fram2 mission will be SpaceX’s first-stage booster, named B1085. Not only has it launched a crew missioned, but it also sent up the Blue Ghost mission, the first fully successful ...

A NASA tally shows 721 people have flown in space, including tourists on short hops and military X-15 pilots. Of that total, 102 are women. The first person in space was the Soviet Union’s Yuri ...

Longest spaceflight by a woman NASA’s Christina Koch holds the title with her 328-day space station mission in 2019 and 2020. During that same flight, she performed the first all-female ...