From space travel to climate change, many of the huge scientific achievements of our age were made by women of color.

Far more men have been to space than women. Now the European Space Agency ESA is looking for new staff and is keen on hiring women.

This year’s “Roger That!” conference will celebrate women in space, featuring talks with feminist icon and astronaut, Eileen Collins.

Head of Spaceport Cornwall, Melissa Thorpe, said: “We believe transparency and openness need to be a priority in our industry, because the impacts and outcomes affect us all.”

Mary Golda Ross is honored with a statue at the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City.

Dr. Rhea Seddon was one of the first six women and the first women of Tennessee to become a space Astronaut.

Laurie Leshin, who is a NASA veteran and Caltech alumni, will become the first female Jet Propulsions Laboratory (JPL) director.

Jessica Watkins will become the first Black women to be sent into space for a long duration mission.

Students at the Yamaguchi Prefecture High School in Japan have designed a kimono inspired jumpsuit for the the international space station.

In the United States’ effort to return to the moon, women key to the operation hope to make history in the final frontier.

The Ascension 2022 online conference was hosted by SEDS-Canada (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space) and a panel of influential women in the space industry.

To encourage and inspire young women to pursue careers in STEAM, or science, technology, engineering, arts, and math, Space VIP has officially launched its New York Space Prize Challenge. Young women enrolled in the public school system within New York's five boroughs and are between the ages of 15 to 18 are welcomed to participate.

NASA’s Spinoff 2022 publication tells the stories of companies, start-ups, and entrepreneurs transforming space technologies into cutting-edge products and services that boost the economy, protect the planet, and save lives.

U.S. Space Force Chief Technology and Innovation Officer Dr. Lisa Costa served as the keynote speaker for the Department of Defense: Digital Modernization Forum on January 13, where she spoke on the importance of building resilient partnerships, overcoming the challenge

To date, four African American women have flown in space. Mae Jemison was the first Black woman to travel to space in 1992, and most recently Dr. Sian Proctor flew to space as part of the Inspiration4 mission.

Russia's sole active female cosmonaut, Anna Kikina, is due to travel to the International Space Station in September on a Soyuz rocket, the national space agency said Thursday.

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir is a candidate to be the first woman to land on the Moon as part of the Artemis lunar mission, which would see the first woman, Jew and Swedish citizen to step foot on the lunar surface, and the first person to do so since Eugene Cernan on December 12, 1972.

“If you ask me for one thing I remember from the flight, it’s seeing the edge of the Earth and seeing the reality of Earth as a planet,” says the 76-year-old Roberta Bondar, who will mark the weekend anniversary with an online celebration.

Medical student Verena Bakula Menezes, 22, was honored by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovations of Brazil, in partnership with NASA. She was responsible for discovering 25 asteroids, one of which is rare, that can collide with Earth.

Quarters featuring the first American woman in space, Sally Ride, are expected to begin circulating in February 2022.