Peggy Whitson has spent more time in space than any other American. She was the first female, nonmilitary Chief of the ...

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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 ...

Retired NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson talks to CNN’s Coy Wire about making history and setting records. As the first female commander of the International Space Station and the world record ...

Commander Peggy Whitson floats during the Ax-2 spaceflight. Whitson, who grew up in Beaconsfield, Iowa and graduated from Iowa Wesleyan, was the first female commander of a private space mission.

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Despite being told to give up her dream of going to space, Peggy Whitson persisted and is now a record-breaking astronaut. "Folks should push themselves to do even more than they think they can ...

We waxed lyrical about Peggy Whitson when she made headlines last month for logging the most hours spacewalking of any female astronaut. And now, the newly nicknamed Space Ninja has broken yet ...

Veteran astronaut Peggy Whitson previously told Business Insider that crews don't dwell on politics, and their unique view of ...

(NASA’s Peggy Whitson topped that record by almost a hundred days in 2017.) The longer she was in orbit, Cristoforetti says, the more her perception of humanity’s time on Earth evolved.