The Ohio University Kennedy Lecture Series will present “An Evening with Dr. Mae ... space, Jemison served six years as a NASA astronaut and flew as the Science Mission Specialist aboard the joint ...

Wright was one of 18 women who sewed the blankets for the NASA space shuttles (Atlantis, Endeavour ... Mae Jemison and Amelia Earhart. Wright told FLORIDA TODAY that in the nose of the space ...

It has been more than 25 years since Mae Jemison became the first African ... became the first woman to be a space shuttle commander. Four years prior, she was also the first woman to pilot ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - It is the fifth day of Black History Month and we have the Black history fact of the day. In 1992 Dr. Mae Jemison became the first African American woman in space. Here is a fun ...

Endeavour, the fifth and final space shuttle was created after the space shuttle program's greatest tragedy. Congress authorized NASA to replace the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was lost ...

Endeavor soared around the planet on its way to the shuttle program's penultimate mission to the Russian Mir Space Station.

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It occurred Feb. 1, 2003. For millions of Americans, it was an event that ...

it is with deep, heartfelt sorrow. I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced a national tragedy with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

R: The Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise inside of Marshall Space Flight Center's Dynamic Test Stand for Mated Vertical Ground Vibration tests (MVGVT). Images: NASA These are the voyages of the space ...

Sierra Space's "mini shuttle" Dream Chaser space plane may make its maiden flight in May after launching atop a rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Pre-flight testing continues at NASA ...

Schools, museums and communities across the nation are marking Black History Month — a celebration of Black history, culture ...

On May 13, 1992, during the maiden voyage of the space shuttle Endeavour, a trio of astronauts conducted the first-ever spacewalk involving more than two participants. STS-49 mission specialists ...