Monday, April 14, at approximately 9:30 a.m., a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket launched five women into space, including singer-songwriter Katy Perry, journalists Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, film producer Kerianne Flynn, and aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe. The entire trip took only eleven minutes as the rocket reached the edge of the cosmos and returned to Earth. Gayle King, specifically, became overwhelmed with anxiety and emotion ahead

NASA launches Artemis I mission to space early Wednesday, November 16th at 1:47 A.M. ET. From the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket sends the Orion spacecraft on a 26-day flight around the moon. The end goal of NASA’s Artemis missions is to put the first woman and first person of color on the Moon . The beginning step in this process was the launch of Artemis I. Eventually, NASA hopes to establish a permanent o