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School history lessons minimise the role of women, report finds

Campaigners say key stage 3 curriculum plays to misogny and teaches a ‘false version of the past’

The Guardian - UK · Sep 24, 2025

Space: the final marketing frontier

The unifying message of Monday's all-woman rocket flight is that, for now, cold space belongs to the hot and rich

Salon · Apr 17, 2025

Social networks, spaceflight vanity and a happy tortoise – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2025

Lauren Sanchez’s all-female space flight is about to blast off – and will challenge Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket blasts off on Monday, with his fiancee, Katy Perry and three others on board. But is it more than just a stunt?

The Guardian - UK · Apr 13, 2025

Blue Origin’s all-female spaceflight urges women to shoot for the stars — but astronaut memoirs reveal the cost of being exceptional

For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will fly with only women aboard. Blue Origin’s all-female crew includes pop star Katy Perry.

Space · Apr 11, 2025

Blue Origin’s all-female space flight urges women to shoot for the stars – but astronaut memoirs reveal the cost of being exceptional

For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will enter orbit with only women aboard. Blue Origin’s all-female space flight crew, which includes popstar Katy Perry, is set to take off this spring.

The Conversation · Apr 3, 2025

Who else has been stuck in space? A short history of long spaceflights

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls short of any endurance record

The Independent UK · Mar 19, 2025

Ukraine Debates Future Of Downed Soviet Monuments

In Ukraine's westernmost city of Lviv, a statue of the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, sprawls on the ground, red paint splashed around her helmet.

International Business Times · Feb 12, 2024

New film 'Spacewoman' to celebrate NASA's Eileen Collins, 1st woman space commander and pilot

NASA astronaut Eileen Collins will be featured in "Spacewoman", a documentary coming in 2025 about the first female space commander and pilot.

Space · Feb 7, 2024

The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts by Loren Grush review – spaceflight pioneer portraits

From sexist objections to the challenges faced by female crew on Earth and in space, this is a vital record of a giant leap for women

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2023