After spending years as an academic underachiever with a passion for tennis, Sally Ride discovered her love of physics and became the first American woman to travel to space.

Sally Ride Science, a nonprofit organization based at the University of California San Diego, is gearing up for its sixth ...

A collectible embroidered patch created to honor the first woman to command a U.S. spacecraft features a geometric pattern representing the glow of her space shuttle lifting off i ...

The first woman of color to go to space will be visiting Terre Haute as she has been tapped to deliver the commencement ...

Since 1937, Amelia Earhart’s disappearance has puzzled countless explorers and aviation enthusiasts. So when a South Carolina ...

UK agents can take advantage of an exclusive, trade-only offer at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex this summer.

Editorials and other Opinion content offer perspectives on issues important to our community and are independent from the work of our newsroom reporters. The first Chinese American film star in ...

The first Chinese American film star in Hollywood is just one of the trailblazers featured in the U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters Program. Her photo has been exhibited at the Nelson-Atkins ...

Sitting among a diverse and venerable group of Americans from every walk of life on the dais in the East Room of the White House on May 3 was lesbian and NASA astrophysicist Jane Rigby, awaiting her ...

Sally Ride spent her life challenging expectations of what women could and should do, most notably by becoming the first American woman in space. The Amelia Bloomer Project, a committee of the ...

Christina Koch wanted to be an astronaut for as long as she could remember. And so she became one. Was it as simple as that?