Sophie Harker wanted to be anything but an astronaut until she went to Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on a family holiday when she was 16 and watched a film about the future of space exploration and astronauts.

Girls Scouts of the USA (GSUSA), Aerojet Rocketdyne Foundation, National Association of Rocketry, and Aerospace Industries Association join to engage and prepare girls across the USA for the American Rocketry Challenge.

After the pole vault accident that caused Lexi English to almost lose her brain function, it became a challenge to follow her passion in STEM.

Dr. Sian Proctor made history as the first black woman to pilot a spacecraft when the first all civilian space mission was launched by SpaceX on September 15.

Barbie goes on a Zero-gravity flight in space to inspire girls in space technology and in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) field.

Virgin Galactic has announced that 32-year-old citizen scientist Kellie Gerardi will fly to space and conduct experiments.

Naoko Yamazaki, center, is the second woman from Japan to become an astronaut. Here, she made history in 2010 when the highest number of women, four, were together in the International Space Station, located in low Earth orbit.

After Renee Wootton realized her life dream to be a pilot, she aimed higher… at becoming an astronaut. Ms. Wooton, a proud indigenous Tharawal woman, was recognized as one of the Top 30 Indigenous Leaders in New South Wales, Australia.

When Sally Ride was sent to space in 1983 for a week, the NASA engineers asked her whether 100 tampons would be sufficient for her stay, an incident that became viral with a song on TikTok last year.