NASA photographer Josh Valcarcel captured Zena Cardman in a pose evocative of one of the first female astronaut's portraits.

For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will enter orbit with ...

The countdown is on for an all-female crew, headlined by singer Katy Perry, to blast off to space on a Blue Origin rocket.

Earth to astronaut Barbie, we have a new space collectible, but probably not for all of the reasons Mattel intended. The toy ...

Hannah Berryman’s documentary “Spacewoman” chronicles the life and career of astronaut Eileen Collins ... thought there was no place for women in space. During her time working at NASA ...

Here's a look at some others who found themselves stuck in space — by choice or not — along with some cool spaceflight ...

Let us observe how the astronauts, especially women, keep their hair while dwelling in the weightless universe of space. In microgravity space, the movement of hair is anything but Earth-like.

More than three decades after making history aboard Space ... astronauts chosen after the Challenger accident in 1987. During her eight-day mission on Endeavour in 1992, she became the first woman ...

Barbie famously donned an astronaut suit two years after the world's first woman lifted off for space and almost two decades before a U.S. woman followed. The packaging for the Miss Astronaut ...

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