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Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space and in orbit. Alan Shepard, the first American and the second person in space.

On May 5, 1961, Alan B. Shepard became the first American in space during a suborbital flight aboard his Mercury capsule named Freedom 7. Three ...

On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard made a brief suborbital flight, becoming the first U.S. astronaut to go into space. John Glenn became the first ...

On May 5, 1961, Alan B. Shepard (back, far left) made it into space—and back—just 23 days after Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first ...

A variety of menus consisting of foods similar to those displayed here provided each astronaut with 2500 or more calories per day. Mercury Program Food. First ...

Jessica Meir of NASA, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka and Hazza Ali Almansoori, the first astronaut from the United Arab Emirates, ...

Michael Collins - one of the three crew members of the first manned mission to land on the Moon, Apollo 11 in 1969 - has died aged 90, his ...

The first woman to travel in space was Soviet cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova. On 16 June 1963, Tereshkova was launched on a solo mission aboard the ...

Wang is one of three astronauts on a six-month mission to build the Tiangong space station.

Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti will be the first European woman to command the International Space Station.

A trio of Chinese astronauts will spend three months in space testing equipment, conducting experiments and preparing the station for future ...

He was the first human to travel into outer space and orbit the Earth. He was aboard the Vostok spacecraft when it successfully orbited the Earth in 1961. Gus ...

Fan mail sent to the astronaut reveals the rigidity of gender roles ... it had taken the famed astronaut to complete his first Earth orbit.

Guion S. Bluford. As a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1983, Guion S. Bluford became the first African American to travel into space.

Purdue graduates have played an important role in space travel, including serving as the first and most recent astronauts to walk on the moon.

The first segment of the ISS launches: a Russian proton rocket named Zarya ... Astronaut Bill Shepherd and cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev ...

Raja Chari is the first rookie astronaut in 48 years to command a NASA mission ... If you would like to see more articles like this please support ...

... then-unwritten rule that banned married astronauts from flying together. And so, in September 1992, Lee and Davis became the first (and, ...

This marks the first spacewalk in Chinese space history involving a woman astronaut, the China Manned Space Agency said in a statement. China ...

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet speaks to reporters in Europe for the first time since his recent SpaceX ...

The first Canadian female astronaut, physician, scientist and photographer, Roberta Bondar was aboard the space shuttle Discovery for its January 1992 ...

Glover and three other astronauts will launch on Sunday aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule named Resilience and are expected to spend about six ...

Shepard was a part of the “Mercury 7”, the first 7 astronauts selected for the first national space program, Project Mercury, which was born ...

First Man: Directed by Damien Chazelle. With Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler. A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, ...

NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless, the first person to fly freely and untethered in space, has died. He was 80.

The U.S. Space Force has added its first astronaut to its ranks, newly-named the "Guardians," during a ceremony held from Earth orbit. Col.

Astronaut Wang Yaping has become the first woman in Chinese history to walk in space. Wang, 41, is one of the three astronauts — or taikonauts, ...

Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became ...

Valentina Tereshkova was the first female astronaut to venture to space. She was born in Bolshoye Maslennikovo, USSR, in 1937, and she worked in ...

The first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, blazed a trail for the many female spaceflyers who would follow. Tereshkova, a Soviet cosmonaut, ...

The first Canadian female astronaut, physician, scientist and photographer, Roberta Bondar was aboard the space shuttle Discovery for its January 1992 ...

Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet cosmonaut who was the first woman to travel into space. On June 16, 1963, she was launched in the spacecraft ...

In 1978 NASA selected thirty-five new Astronauts for the Space Shuttle. There were six female astronauts in the class: Sally Ride, Judy Resnik, Anna Fisher, ...

Sally K. Ride (May 26, 1951–July 23, 2012) became the first American woman in space in 1983. She was one of six women selected to enter the astronaut corps ...

In 1983, astronaut and astrophysicist Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

In June 1963, the first woman rocketed into space. Her name was Valentina Tereshkova and she bravely went where no woman had gone before.

Woman with plentiful curly hair, wearing blue astronaut outfit and headphones, in spacecraft cockpit Sally Ride on the space shuttle Challenger ...

The first woman to travel in space was Soviet cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova. On 16 June 1963, Tereshkova was launched on a solo mission aboard the ...

The first woman to travel into space was a Soviet cosmonaut named Valentina Tereshkova. She traveled around Earth 48 times while orbiting in the Vostok 6 ...

On June 16, 1963, aboard Vostok 6, Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman to travel into space. After 48 orbits and 71 hours, she.

NASA Astronaut Sally Ride, Ph.D., became the first woman from the United States in space on June 18, 1983.

When NASA began training the Mercury astronauts, and before the Soviets made Valentina Tereshkova the first woman to go into space, 13 American women had ...

Why, Amy E. Foster asks, did it take two decades after the Soviet Union launched its first female cosmonaut for the United States to send its first female ...

The European Space Agency has confirmed that the Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti will be the first European woman to command the ...

Kitty Joyner was not only the first woman to graduate from the University of ... NASA in 1988 as a research engineer before being selected as an astronaut.

On June 18th, 1983, NASA physicist Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman astronaut to fly in space. Orbiting Earth on Space Shuttle Challenger, ...

In August 1979, out of the original group of six women astronaut trainees, Rhea Seddon was the first woman to achieve the full rank of astronaut and the first ...

"Guion "Guy" Bluford Biography – NASA Astronaut – First African American In Space". about.com. Guy Bluford interviewed on Conversations from Penn State. hide. v ...

Victor Glover becomes 1st Black astronaut to arrive at space station for long-term stay ... Glover is just the 15th Black NASA astronaut to reach ...

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Maj. Robert H. Lawrence Jr. was the first African-American astronaut to be chosen by a U.S. ...

Mae C. Jemison is the first African American female astronaut. In 1992, she flew into space aboard the Endeavour, becoming the first African American woman ...

Edward Dwight Jr. was an ace combat pilot with a top aeronautics degree and 2,000 flying hours under his belt. In 1962, he was announced as a ...

Victor Glover: 1st African-American NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew Dragon pilot returns hope.

So with his flight, Glover is not only making history as the US gets back into the business of human spaceflight, he will become the first Black ...

Guion Bluford, astronaut who was the first African American launched into space, on the STS-8 mission in 1983. Bluford became an astronaut in 1978.

Glover is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station Nov. 14 and will become the first Black astronaut to live on the ISS as part of ...

Up, up, away! This Sunday, Nov. 15, at 7:27pm EST, Victor Glover will be soaring into space, piloting The SpaceX Crew-1 mission.

On June 30, 1967, the U.S. Air Force selected the first African-American astronaut, Major Robert Lawrence, to train for a highly secretive mission.

When astronaut Victor Glover climbed aboard the International Space Station early Tuesday morning, he became the first Black astronaut ...

The 1st Black astronaut to walk in space pays a virtual visit to some Pontiac students. Dr. Bernard Harris calls them his home movies - but ...

Larry is joined by former U.S. Air Force test pilot Ed Dwight to discuss his journey to nearly becoming the first black astronaut in the ...

Astronaut Victor Glover made history as the first African American to board the International Space Station for an extended mission.

Navy commander and test pilot Victor J. Glover is now the first Black astronaut to live aboard the International Space Station.

A Southern California native made history this week as the first Black astronaut to work at the International Space Station as a long-term ...

Just a day after blasting off for his mission aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule “Resilience” on Sunday, NASA astronaut Victor Glover ...

In celebration of Black History Month, the Runnels County Register ... and former NASA astronaut, who is the first African American and the ...

In 1961, Alan Shepard was the first American to travel into space. It would be 22 years before Guion Bluford would become the first African American astronaut ...

NASA astronaut Victor J. Glover becomes the first Black astronaut to live on the international space station for a long time with the SpaceX ...

Jemison was the first Black woman to be admitted into the NASA astronaut training program and, after more than a year of training, she became ...

After flying 144 combat missions in Vietnam, Bluford became the first African American NASA astronaut in 1979, eventually going into space on the Challenger ...

Victor Glover is on his way to the International Space Station to join the crew. He will be the first Black astronaut to do an extended ...

Victor Glover is making history as first African American NASA astronaut to live on the International Space Station. Commander Glover and ...

On this day in 1967, the U.S. Air Force selected the first African-American astronaut, Major Robert Lawrence, to train for a highly ...

In 1992, astronaut Mae Jemison became the first Black woman in space. Six African American astronauts have visited the space station during ...

NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps will join astronauts Sunita Williams and Josh Cassada as a crew member on the first operational flight of ...

Enjoy these Mae Carol Jemison quotes, she became the first black astronaut to go to space after she served aboard the space shuttle Endeavour. 8. "There is a ...

Astronaut Guion S. Bluford Jr., a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, was the first black American astronaut in space.

There were several Black astronauts before him, but Guion "Guy" Bluford was the first to actually travel into space. He was chosen to become a NASA ...