"A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human spaceflight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women." These are the words of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to ever ...

John Glenn was the only one of the Mercury Seven astronauts to fly on the space shuttleon STS-95 in October-November 1998. The flight came 36 years after his only other space mission, Mercury ...

March 25, 2025 • In deference to President Trump's anti-DEI order, the space agency has removed a promise to send the "the first woman, first person of color" to walk on the moon aboard the ...

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