BREVARD COUNTY • CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA – On June 16, 1963, 26-year-old Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in space.
December 20, 2025, will be remembered as a turning point in the chronicles of space exploration, forever altering humanity’s view of its own sky. On that day, Michaela 'Michi' Benthaus, an aerospace ...
Her 328-day ISS stint, six spacewalks, and engineering career all lead up to NASA’s historic next.