NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research Center in 1966. Johnson made critical technical contributions during her career of 33 years, which ...

Many years before Susan Kilrain became a U.S. Navy TA-4J Skyhawk flight instructor and the second female NASA astronaut to pilot a space shuttle, her dad supported her youthful dreams during an era ...

A diverse and potent force in space exploration, women at NASA who served as human computers were ultimately responsible for sending astronauts to the moon. By Nathalia Holt Computers at the Jet ...

For decades, the contributions of the black female mathematicians who helped get NASA astronauts into space stayed essentially hidden. Not anymore. Now, you’ll be reminded of what the women did even ...

(Gray News) - House Speaker Mike Johnson hosted a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Wednesday honoring the pioneering women of NASA that contributed to the space race. Among them were three ...

Four trailblazing figures from NASA's history are set to launch as new Lego minifigures on Nov. 1. NASA astronauts Sally Ride and Mae Jemison, astronomer Nancy Grace Roman and computer scientist ...

On June 18, 1983, a new era in NASA spaceflight began when Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly into space, but the groundwork for her accomplishments was laid decades beforehand in the ...