The upcoming National Geographic documentary "Sally" offers an intimate look at the life of Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel into space. Directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Cristina ...

On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space when the space shuttle Challenger launched on mission STS-7. (NASA) The morning of June 18, 1983, hundreds of thousands of ...

Sally Ride became the first American woman in space on June 18, 1983, breaking barriers for women to pursue careers in STEM fields. On the 40th anniversary of Ride’s historic flight into space, her ...

Every June, the LGBTQ+ community celebrates and acknowledges its history and LGBTQ+ people and their accomplishments today. Some people have included Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, as ...

A set of memorabilia chronicling Sally Ride's pioneering path to space just fetched a pretty penny at auction. In June 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to reach the final frontier, on ...

Sally Ride wanted to become a professional tennis player, and by some accounts had the skill to make it. But what she once joked was a weak forehand led her in other directions: She became an ...

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 space ...

Sally Ride is remembered for her pioneering journey into space, but a new documentary reveals another dimension of the astronaut’s story. Ride’s life partner Tam O’Shaughnessy opens up about their ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Space used to be a man’s world. Then came Sally Ride, who blazed a cosmic trail for U.S. women into orbit. With a pitch perfect name out of a pop song refrain, she joined the select ...

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The morning of June 18, 1983, hundreds of thousands of spectators awaited the Challenger space shuttle launch at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Some people in the crowd wore T-shirts ...