Aviation pioneer Wally Funk, who finally went to space half a century after training to be a female astronaut, has died.

Oklahoma-connected aviation pioneer Wally Funk has died at the age of 87, the City of Grapevine announced Thursday.

She inspired generations of pilots and astronauts through her trailblazing work as a member of NASA’s “Women in Space Program ...

Funk was also the first female inspector for the Federal Aviation Administration and the first female air safety investigator ...

Wally Funk was selected in 1961 as one of the elite women in the Mercury 13 program, finishing the same rigorous training program given to the Mercury 7 astronauts.

SBIR Phase III work extends AlphaBravo's Kubernetes fleet and lifecycle management platform to streamline combat system ...

Wally Funk was selected in 1961 as one of the elite women in the Mercury 13 program, finishing the same rigorous training ...

NASA is working with commercial partners to build a habitable outpost on the moon, which it calls "moon base." The planned $20 billion moon base will be constructed at the lunar south pole. Astronauts ...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — If the Trump Administration NASA budget proposal passes, the space agency’s mission will take a major shift in priorities. Crewed lunar exploration would get billions of dollars ...

NASA awarded three companies additional lander contracts to test technology ahead of the upcoming Moon Base.

NASA’s inspector general released an audit Tuesday of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, and it looks increasingly likely that Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule won’t be certified for operational ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A rush rescue mission to save a NASA space telescope remains grounded, this time because of a last-minute launch problem. Northrop Grumman’s rocket-launching plane took off ...