NASA's 2025 astronaut class doesn't seem to include any Black recruits, a first in 40 years at the space agency. Officials would not discuss it.

In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space Shuttle programme chipped away at one of Nasa's blind spots.

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 ...

On Sept. 12, 1992, NASA astronaut Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to go to space. In NASA's early days, women and people of color were never selected to go to space. NASA didn't ...

Image specialist Andy Saunders on mining NASA's archives for the ultimate record of America's early space programs ...

Katya Echazarreta in Westwood, Calif., on Oct. 30, 2023. For decades, the space age has left Mexico mostly behind. It was not until 1985, more than a generation after human beings began traveling in ...

"Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?" Perched on top of a 50-kiloton cocktail of highly explosive white lightning with a twist of liquid oxygen, Alan Shepard informed NASA ...

For decades, the space age has left Mexico mostly behind. It was not until 1985, more than a generation after human beings began traveling in space, that space-shuttle astronaut Rodolfo Neri Vela ...