Then, in 1978, six women walked into the astronaut corps. Their names — Sally Ride, Judy Resnik, Anna Fisher, Kathy Sullivan, Rhea Seddon, and Shannon Lucid — became synonymous with a new era. But as ...

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen could launch on a trip around the moon as early as Feb. 8, traveling farther from Earth than ...

Akron schoolgirl, a whiz in math and science, grew up to become a brilliant engineer, a pioneer astronaut and the second ...

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 ...

An 80-year-old woman from Japan was scammed by a man posing as an astronaut in a romance fraud. According to an article recently published by Hokkaido Broadcasting, Sapporo police officers reported ...

JUPITER — On the second anniversary of Jupiter native Kellie Gerardi making the trip to space, the town has seen fit for all to celebrate, declaring Nov. 2 "Kellie Gerardi Day." Gerardi was the 90th ...

An 80-year-old Japanese woman sent $6,750 to save a “stranded astronaut” who needed oxygen money. Romance scams have reached peak absurdity. An 80-year-old woman from Hokkaido, Japan, transferred 1 ...

A Japanese octogenarian was swindled out of thousands of dollars after falling in love online with a self-described astronaut who sought her help to avert a spaceship crisis, police said Tuesday. The ...

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 of spaceflight artifacts explores the nearly five-decade history of women in ...

A woman has pleaded guilty to falsely reporting that her astronaut ex-wife committed a crime while deployed to the International Space Station. Summer Heather Worden, 50, told law enforcement in July ...

Jupiter native Kellie Gerardi became the 90th woman to visit space on a Virgin Galactic flight in 2023. The Town of Jupiter honored the astronaut by naming Nov. 2 "Kellie Gerardi Day." Gerardi is ...