This was an era when calculations were done by hand, missions were plotted with pencils and grit, and exploration meant real danger. The photos capture more than just space suits and rockets; they ...

"The book Lady Astronauts, Lady Engineers, and Naked Ladies is a gender history of the American space community and by extension a social history of American society in the twentieth century during ...

Shortly after the first manned space flight took off in 1961 with Yuri Gagarin orbiting Earth aboard the Vostok 1, astronauts started getting a bit more creative during their space flights by ...

"The first 20 women or so ... couldn't even imagine the reality or the possibility of becoming an astronaut except as they ...