It was the children Tuesday who helped teacher Barbara Roduner deal with the loss of her childhood friend, astronaut Judith Resnik. "They were so great," Mrs. Roduner said of her second-grade pupils ...

AKRON, Ohio — In Akron, Judy Resnik's legacy of strength, smarts and determination is not forgotten. Resnik was a trailblazer. An engineer, a pilot, and only the second female American astronaut to ...

Historian Valerie Neal reveals how women astronauts transformed NASA and redefined what it means to explore space.

In 1978, Ride and five other women became the first group of female astronauts in the U.S. A new book by a longtime curator ...

Editor's note: This essay was originally published on January 28, 2006, on the 20th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Twenty years ago this week, people born after the ...

Stereotypes of Jewish women abound—overbearing Jewish mothers, JAPs, wizened bubbes from the old country—but nothing pokes holes in these stereotypes like Judith Resnik: engineer, astronaut, and first ...

Some Germans may be obsessed with Jews, but few demonstrate their fixations the way Franz Stephan Strambach did. On Sunday, Strambach, a psychology student now under lock and key at the Hadamar ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Among the items issued to astronauts ...

BERLIN, Jan. 5 -- An armed man seized a single-engine aircraft from an airfield southeast of Frankfurt this afternoon and threatened to crash into the European Central Bank as he circled above the ...

I don't know exactly how the space shuttle Challenger disaster found that niche, but it's true. If you ask someone born in the 1960s or '70s what they were doing when they heard about the Challenger, ...