Astronaut John Herrington, who spent his boyhood in Colorado Springs, works to inspire Native youth to become more involved ...

Ed Dwight, America's first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos' rocket company on Sunday.

On June 3, 1965, during the Gemini IV mission, astronaut Edward White made history as the first American to conduct a ...

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 ...

The ISS has “come into its own as a very sophisticated scientific laboratory,” says retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who ...

Learn about Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, and Eileen Collins, some of the pioneering women at NASA who were among the first to suit up for spaceflight. Valerie Neal Sally Ride at the Lyndon B. Johnson ...

On Sept. 12, 1992, NASA astronaut Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to go to space. In NASA's early days, women and people of color were never selected to go to space. NASA didn't ...