NASA astronaut friends Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, who performed the first all-female spacewalk, are breaking records again.

Just a few days in simulated microgravity can subtly change the way women's blood clots, sparking bigger questions about health monitoring protocols for astronauts who can spend six months or more in orbit, say Simon Fraser University researchers.

For 30 years, Valerie Neal curated the human spaceflight artifact collections at the National Air and Space Museum. But after she retired in 2019, she wasn’t yet ready to go into full-time leisure activity. She wanted to work on a project. Neal had ...

China launched three astronauts into space Saturday (June 16), kicking off an ambitous test mission that marks the country's first attempt to dock a manned spaceship in orbit and its first flight of a female astronaut. The Chinese astronauts rode into ...

NASA will provide live coverage as two American astronauts are due to spend hours Wednesday, March 18, on a spacewalk outside the ISS.

To date, space-health research has been dominated by male participants, resulting in a lack of data regarding the physiological effects of space and its environment on women. A medical risk, reported in 2020 onboard the International Space Station, where a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA introduced its newest astronauts Monday, 10 scientists, engineers and test pilots chosen from more than 8,000 applicants to help explore the moon and possibly Mars. For the first time, there were more women than men in an ...

First reported in 2020, an International Space Station mission detected an unexpected blood clot in a female astronaut's jugular vein. To date, space-health research has had more male participants but with the number of female astronauts on the rise, a new SFU–European Space Agency study examined how microgravity affects blood clotting specifically in women.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first six women in newly issued, incompletely adorned astronaut jumpsuits, 1978: (front, left to right) Sally Ride, Rhea Seddon; (rear) Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, Anna Fisher ...

SEATTLE — She's a doctor of Americans students and the emerita curator in the Department of Space History at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. Now, Valerie Neal has added a third book to her collected books: 'On a Mission' tracks the long ...