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Katy Perry is embarking on a space journey aboard the Blue Origin rocket as a member of a historic, all-female crew. The ...

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"As astronauts, we live on the edge of danger." Screen Daily has debuted a trailer for the documentary film titled Spacewoman ...

Discover how Dr. Angie Griffin's groundbreaking research on resilience is empowering a new generation of female pilots to ...

"Every person on board is a crew member − there are no pilots," according to a statement ... I would be part of the first ever all-female crew in space, I would have believed you.

Photos of the Enola Gay WWII bomber, Black military pilots and the country’s first female fighter pilot are among the more ...

By Christine Hauser The singer and songwriter Katy Perry and the broadcast journalist and show host Gayle King will be among the all-female crew on the next mission of New Shepard, the space ...

More than 600 people who have launched into space. Only 100 have been women. Here are those who made milestones with their treks.

From 1934-38, Rhonie, in the dank chill of winter and the stifling heat of summer, worked along the ground and on scaffolds, according to a 2015 account in Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine ...

The mission, which was revealed on "CBS Mornings", will be the first all-female flight crew ... the Earth's atmosphere from space. The rocket, which will have no pilot, will launch the capsule ...