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 ...

NASA astronaut Sally Ride (1951 - 2012) in the interior of the Challenger space shuttle during the STS-41-G mission, October 1984. In 1983 she became the first American woman in space on the STS-7 ...

On Monday, an all-female crew headed to space for the first time since 1963, when Valentina Tereshkova manned a solo spaceflight. This time, things looked a little different. This crew went up in a ...

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 ...

As space missions become longer and ambitions for deep-space travel grow, scientists are working to understand how life beyond Earth may affect every system in the human body. Two years after her ...

Two astronauts from Belarus and the U.S. have set off for the International Space Station together with a Russian cosmonaut, marking the first time that a woman from Belarus is traveling to space. The ...

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 ...