Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in Earth orbit. Learn more about her life, career and ...

Sixty years after Alan Shepard became the first American in space, everyday people are on the verge of following in his cosmic footsteps. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin company used Wednesday’s ...

Jemison was on her way to becoming the first woman of colour and first African-American woman in space. Born in 1956 in Decatur, Alabama, Mae Carol Jemison moved to Chicago with her family aged three.

January 31: Explorer 1, the first American satellite, enters orbit around Earth. July: President Dwight Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 into law, establishing NASA.

A US astronaut has become the first Native American woman in space following a Nasa launch on Wednesday, Marine Colonel Nicole Mann, 45, is one of four astronauts who blasted off from Florida at ...

Next month Nasa will send a new crew into space. And for the first time there will be a Native American woman aboard. Astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann, of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian ...

Space station crews spend the holidays away from family and friends, but that doesn’t stop them from celebrating in space.

8, 1961, roughly three months after astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space in his Friendship 7 capsule on May 5. Directed by Matt Shakman ("WandaVision") and starring Pedro ...