Currently, Whitson holds the record for the most cumulative spacewalking hours by a female astronaut with 10 spacewalks ...

Iowa native and prolific astronaut — first with NASA for three decades and recently as director of human space flight for Axiom Space — Peggy Whitson again is celestial bound as commander of a ...

With 8 spacewalks under her belt, Sunita Williams has 56 hrs and 40 mins of extravehicular activities to her name. After her ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - 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 ...

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 ...

Peggy Whitson, an Iowa native and veteran astronaut, will command Axiom Space’s Ax-4 mission, set to launch no earlier than spring 2025.Whitson will lead an int ...

Astronaut Peggy Whitson has spent 675 days in space, more than any other American. She's also the worldwide female record-holder for time spent in space. So if anyone knows how space affects the ...

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 ...

but it An Iowa native is set to take to the stars ... again. Peggy Whitson is set to command a second commercial spaceflight. Whitson will be at the helm of Axiom Mission 4. Whitson has spent more ...