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100th woman in space, Emily Calandrelli, stands up to 'small men' on the internet: 'I should have expected this.'
By Pandora Dewan published
The astronaut and MIT engineer's monumental milestone was marred by misogyny: "Instead of being on cloud nine, I’m crying in my seat."
Donald "Deke" Slayton: Mercury astronaut who waited more than a decade to fly to space
By Elizabeth Howell last updated
Slayton made his first space flight in 1975 as the Apollo docking module pilot of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) mission.
Building blocks: How China plans to make bricks on the moon for lunar habitats
By Andrew Jones published
Chinese scientists are developing the capability to build a moon base made of bricks formed from lunar soil.
Fruit flies in space! Chinese astronauts show off experiment on Tiangong space station (video)
By Andrew Jones published
China's Shenzhou 19 astronauts have some winged companions to oversee aboard the country's Tiangong space station — fruit flies, which arrived on a cargo ship on Nov. 15.
Project Mercury: America's 1st crewed space program
By Elizabeth Howell last updated
Project Mercury was NASA's program that launched the first American astronauts into space, completing a total of six crewed spaceflights.
China's Tianzhou 7 spacecraft burns up in Earth's atmosphere to end cargo mission (video)
By Andrew Jones published
The Tianzhou 7 spacecraft undocked from China's Tiangong space station on Nov. 10 and reentered Earth's atmosphere at around 8:25 a.m. EST (1325 GMT) on Nov. 17.
How does spaceflight affect astronauts' brains? There's good news and bad
By Victoria Corless published
Long-duration spaceflight affects some aspects of astronauts' cognitive health, but the observed impairment was not found to be lasting, a new study finds.
How do astronauts weigh themselves in space?
By Keith Cooper published
Space mysteries In microgravity, astronauts must measure their mass, not their weight, which they can do with two devices on the ISS.
Blue Origin space tourist launches: Live mission updates
By Mike Wall last updated
Blue Origin's next space tourist mission hasn't yet been announced yet. Here are live updates of what we know.
Documentary director redefines astronaut Eileen Collins as the 'Spacewoman' (interview)
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
The dictionary defines "spacewoman" as simply "a woman astronaut." In the case of its latest usage, though, the term carries more meaning. "Spacewoman" is a new film about Eileen Collins.
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