When she was 10, she had surgery at St. Jude to replace her knee and get a titanium rod in her left thigh bone. Ad“My battle with cancer really prepared me for space trav...

Thierry Chesnot/Getty Images(CNN) - Children everywhere are going to get the chance to have two historical female role models as part of their playsets. Mattel is honorin...

Today, women and minorities play prominent roles in major space operations at NASA and in private and public space companies. Today there are women in careers in the spac...