On Monday, Blue Origin’s New Shepard launch vehicle brought six women into space, roughly 62 miles above the earth’s surface, for the first all-women crewed flight since a solo mission in 1963. The ...

Still, for all the chest-beating talk of looking to the stars, there’s one question that you rarely hear asked: Would ...

Her historic flight proved women belonged among the stars.

Gayle King wishes everybody would adopt a more realistic perspective about Monday’s Blue Origin space outing. The “CBS Mornings” co-host has been telling anyone who will listen that what she and her ...

In 1963 Valentina Tereshkova made history as the first woman to travel into space. It was a landmark achievement for the Soviet Union, and for women around the world. But what makes Tereshkova’s story ...

For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will enter orbit with only women aboard. Blue Origin’s all-female space flight crew, which includes ...

Find out how NASA’s astronaut selection process has evolved. Diane Tedeschi Marsha Ivins (at Florida's Kennedy Space Center in 1995) flew on five space shuttle missions, logging more than 1,300 hours ...

Out of over 600 people who have traveled to space, only 100 have been women. In 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel to space. Kellie Gerardi became the 90th woman to launch ...

Gayle King wishes everybody would adopt a more realistic perspective about Monday’s Blue Origin space outing. The “CBS Mornings” co-host has been telling anyone who will listen that what she and her ...