On 1978, NASA selected its eighth and most diverse class of astronauts yet. The Astronaut Class of 1978, also known as the ...

After Ed Dwight’s journey to become the first African-American in space ended, Maj. Robert H. Lawrence Jr. was selected, on June 30, 1967, for the Defense Department’s Manned Orbiting Laboratory ...

*The Smithsonian Channel recently aired a documentary that tells the stories of NASA’s first Black American astronauts and the country’s race with Russia to put a person of color in space. Produced in ...

Bernard Harris and Peggy Whitson were inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 31 at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Harris, the first African American to perform a spacewalk, flew on two ...

Two trailblazing NASA astronauts, the first Black astronaut to complete a spacewalk and the woman who holds the U.S. record for most time spent in space, have been inducted into the U.S. Astronaut ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr. talks about his ...

Learn about Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, and Eileen Collins, some of the pioneering women at NASA who were among the first to suit up for spaceflight. Valerie Neal Sally Ride at the Lyndon B. Johnson ...

From Valentina Tereshkova to Mae Jemison, here are the female astronauts you need to know about, who broke boundaries – and rules – to do what no women had done before. They say the sky’s the limit, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A few weeks ago, Hidden Figures, the story ...