Mascara and strings of tampons: How Nasa's baffled engineers tried to prepare for the first female astronauts in space

In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A New Book Explains the Delay in Hiring Women as Astronauts

Find out how NASA’s astronaut selection process has evolved.
The Space Race on MSN

How The Soviet Union Reinvented The Space Shuttle

Union’s Buran programme was more than just a clone of NASA’s shuttle: it flew once, uncrewed, landed automatically, and hung ...
Daily Camera on MSN

CU Boulder to rename Williams Village East in memory of alumnus, astronaut Ellison Onizuka

The University of Colorado Boulder will rename the Williams Village East residence hall to Onizuka Hall in honor of alumnus ...
Ars Technica

Houston, you’ve got a space shuttle… only NASA won’t say which one

The head of NASA has decided to move one of the agency's retired space shuttles to Houston, but which one seems to still be up in the air. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), who earlier this year ...
Houston Chronicle

NASA tells John Cornyn it’s moving a shuttle to Houston, but nobody is saying which one

The future of space shuttle Discovery and its possible move to Houston remains murky after officials put out a series of vague statements Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning. U.S. Sen. John Cornyn ...
Phys.org

Bid to relocate US Space Shuttle Discovery faces museum pushback

Tucked inside President Donald Trump's flagship tax and spending bill last month was a little-noticed provision to relocate the iconic space shuttle Discovery from a museum outside Washington to ...