Setbacks aside, the Soviet Union was then far ahead of the USA in the space race, launching the first ... the International Space Station. American astronaut Vance Brand later said: We [the ...

He was the first in his family to graduate from college and earn a PhD, and was the second African-American astronaut to travel to space. Dr. McNair embodied the idea that race, income and generation ...

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, who is assigned to fly to the International Space Station later this year, is captured wearing an extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) spacesuit in this stark black and ...

That crew includes African American astronaut Victor Glover, a former U.S. Navy F-18 pilot with prior experience aboard the International Space Station. Also joining the mission is Christina Koch ...

McClain, a Soldier in her second space mission, leads a team of one American astronaut a Japanese astronaut and one Roscomos Cosmonaut. Crew 10 docked on the ISS early Sunday morning where after ...

Mathematics has long been an essential field in advancing society, and African American women have played ... extraordinary contributions to the space race. Octavia Spencer portrayed her.