Peggy Whitson, an Iowa native and veteran astronaut, will command Axiom Space’s Ax-4 mission, set to launch no earlier than ...

Iowa native and prolific astronaut -- first with NASA for three decades and recently as director of human space flight for ...

Iowa-born astronaut Peggy Whitson is scheduled to command another two-week mission to the International Space Station in the ...

When astronaut Dr. Peggy Whitson returned from space earlier this year, it was a triumphant conclusion to a lifelong career as a scientist, explorer, and leader. Whitson is a biochemist who became ...

Iowa-native Peggy Whitson is set to command another commercial spaceflight. Axiom Mission 4 will take Whitson and a crew of international partners to space to dock with the International Space Station ...

An astronaut doesn’t scare easily. Yet when I learned that I would partner with Peggy Whitson, the first female chief of the NASA astronaut office, for my inaugural trip to space, I felt an ...

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson has logged a whopping 665 days in space. That's an American record, and it's more time in space than just about anyone else on Earth can claim (aside from seven ...

Two NASA astronauts who flew up to the International ... but it was broken by Peggy Whitson with her fifth spacewalk in 2008. Wilmore also retired from the Navy as a captain, recording over ...

American astronaut Peggy Whitson made history when she floated outside the International Space Station on Thursday, breaking the record for the most spacewalks by a woman. A grandfather of three ...

Axiom Space recently completed the photoshoot of its astronauts who will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) in spring 2025.