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 ...

WASHINGTON -- NASA is renaming a facility after Black woman engineer portrayed in the movie "Hidden Figures". NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency's headquarters building ...

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

*”Hidden Figures” is an upcoming drama that recounts the true story of African-American mathematician, Katherine Johnson, and her two colleagues, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, who helped NASA ...

For most of NASA’s history, space was a man’s domain, a boys’ club in orbit. The first astronauts were all military test ...

NASA's 2025 astronaut class doesn't seem to include any Black recruits, a first in 40 years at the space agency. Officials would not discuss it.

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 ...

Black women have made more strides in outer space than they have in corporate America. The newly released 2025 Fortune 500 CEO list underscores the significant disparities Black women continue to face ...

A 22-year-old black woman is serving as an engineer for NASA. Tiera Guinn is currently a Rocket Structural Design and Analysis Engineer for the Space Launch System that aerospace company Boeing is ...

ENFIELD, Conn. -- Lego has unveiled a set of figures celebrating the women of NASA. The 231-piece set features Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut, and Mae Jemison, the first black woman ...

NASA’s Class of 1978, ‘represent the most competent, talented, and experienced people available to us today.’ ...

The candidates – six women and four men – are the first class of astronaut recruits in four years since 10 new astronauts were selected as part of the 2021 class. The incoming astronaut class includes ...