NASA's Artemis II mission returns astronauts to the Moon with first female and African American crew members. Explore their profiles and historic adventure ahead.

Guion Bluford became the first African American astronaut to travel into space.

Brigadier General (CA) Yvonne Cagle, a NASA astronaut, physician, & retired Air Force Colonel, was promoted in the California State Guard on November 2, 2024. As the first African-American female ...

NASA's Artemis 2 faces new delays, pushing its launch to at least March. Here's why the crewed lunar mission is postponed, ...

The space shuttle's seven crew members died, including one civilian teacher. The tragedy changed the course of NASA's future. On the morning of January 28, 1986, seven crew members were killed when ...

Katherine Johnson and other Black female scientists transformed NASA and STEM, overcoming segregation to calculate missions from Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 28th January 1986: An abstract smoke pattern after the space shuttle Challenger explosion, Kennedy Space Center, Florida.Dave ...

The Challenger space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after launch on January 28, 1986, killing all seven crew members. A failed O-ring seal in the right solid rocket booster caused the disaster, which was ...

On Valdosta State University’s campus, tucked inside a space that quietly invites history, the Copeland African American ...

Themed “100 years of Black History Month,” the gala took a close look at the past century since Carter G. Woodson started Negro History Week in 1926.