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This Historian Interviewed Nearly Every Woman Astronaut and Learned How They Redefined NASA Forever
For most of NASA’s history, space was a man’s domain, a boys’ club in orbit. The first astronauts were all military test ...
Kathryn Sullivan said spacesuits for a women were a problem in the 1980s. For the first time in U.S. history, an all-woman team of astronauts — Anne McClain and Christina Koch — were scheduled to step ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The first all-female spacewalk is back on, six months after a suit-sizing flap led to an embarrassing cancellation. NASA announced Friday that the International Space Station's ...
As the Artemis program works toward its first lunar landing on the Artemis III mission later this decade, new lunar ...
Among the trailblazing women, those who had long aspired to spaceflight learned to fly airplanes in hopes of improving their ...
The women in this group include Lauren Edgar, Rebecca Lawler, Anna Menon, Dr. Imelda Muller, Erin Overcash, and Katherine ...
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How Far American Women Astronauts Have Soared Since Sally Ride Took Her Historic Spaceflight
In 1978, Ride and five other women became the first group of female astronauts in the U.S. A new book by a longtime curator ...
There’s a pained look on Dillon Hall’s face behind the space suit’s closed mask. The bulky gear he’s wearing from head to toe weighs 125 pounds. It’s a prototype of what NASA astronauts will don on ...
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