To simulate menstrual fluid, the team used glycerol, a thick liquid similar in consistency to blood. In both pre-flight and ...

On June 19, 1963, two Soviet spacecraft named Vostok 5 and Vostok 6 returned to Earth, ending a historic joint mission. Vostok 6 was carrying cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who became the first woman ...

On June 16, 1963, 26-year-old Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova made history by becoming the first woman to travel into space. A former factory seamstress, Tereshkova was an accomplished ...

Russian actress Yulia Peresild, cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov and director-producer Klim Shipenko. The trio flew to the space ...

There is a possibility of both radiological and chemical contamination within Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facility.

After boarding the Challenger space shuttle on June 18, 1983, Ride became the first US woman to fly to space. It was two decades after Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova made the voyage.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says there is a possibility of both radiological and chemical contamination within Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz.

It was two decades after Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova made the voyage. NASA only started allowing women to apply as astronaut recruits in 1977.

When director Cristina Costantini started making a documentary about the first US woman in space, she thought it would be looking back on the "sexism and homophobia of yesteryear".

Blue Origin has been flying tourists into space since 2021. The last time there was an all-female space flight was in 1963 when Valentina Tereshkova did a solo flight on a Soviet spacecraft.