In 1978 Nasa announced 35 new astronauts for a new era of spaceflight – and six of them were women. Here's how the Space ...

Learn about Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, and Eileen Collins, some of the pioneering women at NASA who were among the first to ...

However, during these early years of spaceflight, NASA engineers and astronauts cut their teeth on a variety of spaceflight ...

Commissioned in August 1943, the Essex-class carrier USS Intrepid fought across the Pacific, surviving a torpedo at Truk and multiple kamikaze strikes while launching raids from the Marshalls to ...

Their presence took the show off-course, in another sense. From its original, simple Swiss Family Robinson premise — of a ...

A rapid journey through the Indo-Pakistani wars — from partition in 1947 to the major conflicts of 1947–48, 1965, 1971, and ...

PEOPLE recently caught up with Barbara Eden, who starred as the titular 2,000-year-old genie named Jeannie opposite the late ...

In the vastness of the universe, every moment is filled with wonders. Recently, a set of precious photographs that had been sealed for many years has been restored and made public. These images ...

China’s strategic ambition is reminiscent of the pioneering spirit of the Apollo missions that won the Space Race for the U.S ...

FILE – Dolly Parton poses at the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Ceremony in New York, on Oct. 13, 2022. Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s husband of nearly 60 years, died Monday, March 3, 2025, in Nashville, ...

On Sept. 14, 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 2 -- known informally as Lunik 2 -- became the first Earth-launched space vehicle to ...

On Sept. 17, 1787, the U.S. Constitution, completed in Philadelphia, was signed by a majority of the 55 delegates to the ...