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.

Kathryn Sullivan said spacesuits for a women were a problem in the 1980s. For the first time in U.S. history, an all-woman team of astronauts — Anne McClain and Christina Koch — were scheduled to step ...

Katy Perry, Gayle King, Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez and the rest of Blue Origin’s all-female crew posed in their space suits in a photoshoot over the weekend ahead of their journey Monday. In ...

Jeff Bezos’s fiancé Lauren Sánchez revamped the classic astronaut suit with a “sexy” designer upgrade for Blue Origin’s first all-female flight to space on Monday morning. Shortly before the historic ...

African American astronaut Mae Jemison, left, smiles as suit technician Sharon McDougle performs an unpressurized and pressurized leak check on her spacesuit prior to the STS-47 Spacelab-J mission on ...

Katy Perry shared a look at the space suits she, Lauren Sanchez, Gayle King and other members of the all-female Blue Origin team will be wearing for their launch on Monday. Perry posted a group photo ...

The women are part of Blue Origin's first all-female space flight, and they're taking off in suits custom-made by Monse Lauren Sánchez opened up about the custom astronaut suits that she, Katy Perry ...

Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket is scheduled to launch into space Monday carrying an all-female crew that includes music superstar Katy Perry and entrepreneur Amanda Nguyen, who will be making ...

Jemison, who was the first African American woman in space, also expresses this sense of destiny in her 2001 memoir. "I perched quietly, looking out of the windows on the flight deck," she writes.

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Jasleen Chana is a PhD candidate at UCL in the ...

The women are part of Blue Origin's first all-female space flight, and they're taking off in suits custom-made by Monse Michael Nied has been a digital news editor with PEOPLE since 2025. He has ...