Only 566 people have ever travelled to space. 65 of them, or about 11.5%, were women. NASA recently proclaimed it will put the “first woman and next man” on the moon by 2024. Despite nearly 60 ...

Dr. Bernard Harris Jr., a decorated astronaut who became the first Black person to perform a spacewalk in 1995, is being ...

And for the first time, these space suits will be made to fit both male and female astronauts, which is something Peggy Whitson, a former NASA astronaut who completed 10 spacewalks and holds the ...

It was nothing close to the celebrity status Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin achieved when they became the first two men, in that order, to walk on the moon about 3 1/2 years earlier.

And in the early days of the space race, only experienced military pilots (mostly white men) were accepted into NASA’s astronaut ranks, drastically restricting who had a chance to go to space in ...