Men still outnumber women in NASA's astronaut corps. Of NASA's 47 active astronauts, 20 are women. And of the seven astronauts currently living at the space station, McClain and Ayers are the only ...

NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps retired May 30, after nearly 16 years of service with the agency. Epps most recently served as a ...

The first spacewalk was conducted in 1965, by Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov. Nearly 20 years later, cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space during a solo outing in 1984 ...

You can read about Cardman's assignments to fly to the International Space Station and see more photos of Fisher, one of the first six women to be selected for NASA's astronaut corps. Like this ...

Dr. Bernard Harris and Dr. Peggy Whitson were officially inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on Saturday at the ...

Elon Musk is dialing back his threat to decommission a capsule used to take astronauts and supplies to the International ...