A collection of more than 50 pieces of memorabilia previously owned by Sally Ride, the first American woman to reach space, ...

To simulate menstrual fluid, the team used glycerol, a thick liquid similar in consistency to blood. In both pre-flight and ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Cristina Costantini, director of the new documentary, "Sally," about the life of astronaut ...

Sally Ride was the first American woman in space, and when she died in 2012, her obituary publicly revealed that she was gay. KCRW hears from her partner Tam O’Shaughnessy, plus the director of the ...

The two-week mission, chartered by Houston-based Axiom Space, is the fourth privately financed flight to the International ...

Jahnavi Dangeti, from Andhra Pradesh’s West Godavari district, has been selected as an astronaut candidate for a US-based ...

Iowa astronaut Peggy Whitson is back in space, this time as the leader of the Axiom Mission 4 to the International Space ...

NASA retiree turned private astronaut Peggy Whitson was launched on the fifth flight to orbit of her career early on ...

Sponsored by governments but ferried by a private company, astronauts from Hungary, India and Poland are going to the space ...

Taylor Jenkins Reid's "Atmosphere" tells the story of Joan, an astronomer who becomes an astronaut, and Vanessa, an ...