Katy Perry will "shoot across the sky" with an all-female crew, including Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez, a NASA rocket scientist ...

The six-member crew will cross the Karman Line and experience weightlessness as part of the brief joyride above the planet.

SpaceX is wrapping up the latest chapter in its commercial human spaceflight endeavors with the return of Fram2. The mission ...

A bitcoin investor is headed to space with three polar explorers on the first flight to carry people over the North and South ...

Mikkelsen, the first Norwegian bound for space, has flown over the poles before, but at a much lower altitude. She was part ...

No one saw Earth's poles from space in the more than 400 human spaceflight missions preceding Fram2. The closest any crew ...

The first woman in space was the Soviet Union's Valentina Tereshkova in 1963. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in 1983. Of those four, only Tereshkova is still alive.

The first American, Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, followed on May 5, 1961. The first woman in space was the Soviet Union’s Valentina Tereshkova in 1963. Sally Ride became the first American woman in ...

These are the words of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to ever go into space. In 1963, at just 26, the Russian cosmonaut made history when she orbited Earth during the Vostok 6 mission.