For 30 years, Valerie Neal curated the human spaceflight artifact collections at the National Air and Space Museum. But after ...

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 ...

For most of NASA’s history, space was a man’s domain, a boys’ club in orbit. The first astronauts were all military test pilots, white men trained to push the envelope of flight, not question ...

NASA astronaut Sally Ride (1951 - 2012) in the interior of the Challenger space shuttle during the STS-41-G mission, October 1984. In 1983 she became the first American woman in space on the STS-7 ...

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 ...

In the 1970s, NASA partnered with the U.S. Postal Service on an overlooked project that helped shape modern EV development.

A new documentary, Spacewoman, explores the inspiring story of the astronaut who led NASA's "Return to Flight" after the Columbia disaster. Reading time: Reading time 4 minutes Eileen Collins didn’t ...

The first program of Viewfinder: Women’s Film and Video from the Smithsonian discusses "Julie" (1974) by filmmakers Robert and Ingrid Wiegand and "Walking" (1975) by Ingrid Wiegand from the ...