Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 13, 1978, NASA selected its eighth and most diverse class of astronauts yet. The Astronaut Class of 1978, also known as ...

NASA shows how space takes a toll on men and women differently. — -- With an upcoming mission to Mars, NASA is studying the ways that living in space affects both men and women. In a study ...

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 ...

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 ...

From Valentina Tereshkova to Mae Jemison, here are the female astronauts you need to know about, who broke boundaries – and rules – to do what no women had done before. They say the sky’s the limit, ...

Lunette, a company that makes reusable menstrual cups, has sent some into space to help female astronauts on long-term missions. The Lunette Period Cups are made of hypoallergenic medical-grade ...

NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who famously stayed in space for an extended nine-month visit after problems with an ...