A new documentary sheds light on the extraordinary story of the US's first woman astronaut, Sally Ride, who defied all ...

When Sally Ride arrived at NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in 1978, there were approximately 4,000 technical employees working there. Want to guess how many were men? If you said 3,996 ...

What do you know about Sally Ride? For American citizens of a certain age, science wonks, space geeks, and feminist historians, the easiest answer is the most obvious one: she was the first ...

During one of the countless, often boneheaded interviews Sally Ride endured about her pioneering role in the United States space program, she schools a reporter on how to address her.

It has been 40 years since Sally Ride became the first woman from the United States to travel into outer space. June 18 marks the anniversary of Ride’s ceiling-shattering, six-day mission on the ...

By Caryn James When Sally Ride died in 2012, she was praised as the first American woman in space, but there was much more to the story. Her obituaries let the world know a secret she had long ...

Some people have included Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, as part of that celebration. Last year, a viral tweet claimed Ride was a lesbian in response to a video clip in which right ...

Astronaut Sally Ride had been Cristina Costantini's hero when she was in grade school. "Sally," the Milwaukee filmmaker's latest documentary, is a portrait of a complex hero. The movie ...

reveals the legacy of NASA astronaut Sally Ride. Featuring archival footage filmed both on the ground and in space, along with new interviews with Ride's close friends and colleagues, the ...

When Sally Ride arrived at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in 1978, there were approximately 4,000 technical employees working there. Want to guess how many were men? If you said 3,996 ...

The new Sally Ride documentary "Sally" chronicles the astronaut's career, but gets into thorny territory when it conjectures about her personal life.