African American astronaut Mae Jemison, left, smiles as suit technician Sharon McDougle performs an unpressurized and pressurized leak check on her spacesuit prior to the STS-47 Spacelab-J mission on ...

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 ...

In a comedy landscape where Black women remain significantly underrepresented, two best friends from South Central Los ...

These women broke boundaries and reached for the stars. Before spaceflight became more inclusive, a few extraordinary women broke through the stratosphere — and the barriers of history. The journey ...