Portrait of four female astronauts in the International Space Station's Zvezda Service Module, April 7, 2010. Pictured are, clockwise from lower...
Astronauts Kathryn D. Sullivan and Sally Ride in the interior of the Challenger space shuttle during the STS-41-G mission, October 1984. They are...
American engineer and astronaut Mae Jemison works in zero gravity in the centre aisle of the Spacelab Japan science module aboard OV-105, the Space...
Mission Specialist Kathryn D Sullivan, wearing extravehicular mobility unit and communications carrier assembly , prepares for contingency...
Entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari , due to become the first female space tourist, enjoys "flying" in a zero-gravity simulator, a Russian IL-76 MDK...
Space Shuttle Discovery commander Eileen Collins walks from the crew area to the astronaut van to be driven to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space...
Astronauts Jessica Meir, Anne McClain, Nicole Mann and Christina Koch who have been selected for a manned mission to Mars are photographed for Paris...
Poster commemorating the June 19, 1963 flight of Valentina Tereshkova, first woman astronaut. Image of hemeted astronaut with red star and white dove.
Sunita Williams, American Astronaut Who Holds The Record For Longest Space flight By A Woman, Photographed In 2004.
Astronaut Jeanette Epps is photographed for Woman's Day Magazine on April 26, 2017 at Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. PUBLISHED...
Chemist, the first Briton in space and the first woman to visit the Mir space station in 1991, Helen Sharman is photographed for the Times on...
Astronaut Susan J. Helms, STS-102 mission specialist, is pictured March 10, 2001 on the mid deck with both Extravehicular Mobility Unit space suits...
During off-duty time in the Spacehab module, astronaut Shannon W. Lucid uses the microgravity of space to fabricate her own kind of easy chair as the...
Member of International space crew, US Peggy Whitson, has space suite checked at the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, 10 October 2007. The flight...
Mission Specialist Stephanie Wilson addresses the media after the astronauts for NASA's next Space Shuttle Mission, STS-121, arrived at the shuttle...
French astronaut Claudie Andre-Deshays relaxes between training exercises at the Zvezdniy Gorodok space training facility near Moscow. Andre-Deshays,...
Astronaut Dr. Yvonne Cagle attends "Miles from Tomorrowland: Space Missions" Kick Off Event at New York Hall Of Science on July 16, 2015 in New York...
Outside Massachusetts General Hospital, Jessica U. Meir, Ph.D. From Caribou, Maine. Meir is a graduate of Brown University, has an advanced degree...
Astronaut Christina Hammock Koch, a member of the International Space Station expedition 59/60, attends her final exam at the Gagarin Cosmonauts'...
Astronaut Cady Coleman poses for photographers near the Russian Soyuz TMA-20 at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome on December 11, 2010. Soyuz...
Bonnie J. Dunbar, US mission specialist, leads her crewmates on the Space Shuttle Challeger STS-61-A mission on October 27, 1985 at Kennedy Space...
Astronaut Joan Higginbotham addresses students at a function in New Delhi on July 6, 2010. Higginbotham was the third Afro-American woman in space...