On 1978, NASA selected its eighth and most diverse class of astronauts yet. The Astronaut Class of 1978, also known as the ...

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 ...

Saudi Arabian astronaut Rayyanah Barnawi reached the stars and made history on May 21. As part of the SpaceX Ax-2 mission, the 34-year-old became the first woman from her country to reach space. She ...

Two NASA astronauts have ventured outside the International Space Station to conduct a rare all-female spacewalk. When astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers emerged around 9 a.m. Thursday, May 1, ...

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 ...

McClain and Ayers are both part of a SpaceX mission known as Crew-10 that reached the space station in March and paved the way for the Starliner astronauts to return home. NASA provided a livestream ...