With Sunita Williams being stranded in space for nearly eight months, it's got many thinking about how female astronauts deal ...

I want to be an astronaut,'" Moghbeli recalled about her upbringing at Lenox Elementary School in Baldwin. Her book report about cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova lit the spark like the rocket she ...

MOSCOW, June 16. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree awarding the world's first female cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, the Order of Gagarin, making her the first holder of ...

That's despite the fact that the first woman in space, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova ... of medium-sized spacesuits to fit one of the astronauts. For the last decade, Dr Varsha Jain ...