The first Space Shuttle was originally going to be named Constitution. US President Gerald Ford agreed to rename it ...

A political effort to relocate the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston has been merged with ...

America's 1st woman astronaut to walk in space explains the history of NASA spacesuit sizing. ... left, and Sally K. Ride are pictured in orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in October 1984.

On June 18, 1983, NASA astronaut Sally Ride became America's first woman in space after she and four colleagues blasted off on the space shuttle Challenger for the STS-7 mission. The astronauts ...