The U-2 spy plane flies at staggering altitudes for reconnaissance, requiring pilots to wear space suits to protect against ...

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 ...

Learn about Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, and Eileen Collins, some of the pioneering women at NASA who were among the first to ...

A Smithsonian historian chronicles the struggle to relieve oneself in space. July 12, 2013— -- "Do it in the suit." According to Tom Wolfe's book "The Right Stuff," that's what mission control ...