Women in space

How to Watch the First Spacewalk With All Women on Friday

Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will conduct the historic spacewalk after the event was initially cancelled in March.

Meet Earth’s most experienced female spacewalker

The Space Archaeologist Studying the Junk Humans Leave Throughout the Cosmos

"People think of space as this empty place, but there's all this human material in it."

The Space Archaeologist Studying the Junk Humans Leave Throughout the Cosmos

"People think of space as this empty place, but there's all this human material in it."

Valentina Tereshkova, Sally Ride, and the Beginnings of Women in Space

While Ride's first flight came 20 years after Tereshkova's, it’s Ride who really broke the barrier for women aspiring to become astronauts.