Dr. Bernard Harris became the first Black man to do a space walk. His family watched nervously seeing him take off into space ...

NASA astronaut Anil Menon will embark on his first mission to the International Space Station, as flight engineer and Expedition 75 crew.

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 ...

Men still outnumber women in NASA's astronaut corps. Of NASA's 47 active astronauts, 20 are women. Of the seven astronauts currently living at the space station, McClain and Ayers, an Air Force ...

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 ...

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 ...