Hundreds of San Francisco Bay Area girls, their parents and their teachers will join former NASA astronaut Sally Ride on a journey of scientific discovery in early October. On Sunday, Oct. 2, 2005, ...

Hundreds of San Francisco Bay Area girls in grades 5-8, along with their parents and teachers, will join Astronaut Sally Ride on a journey of scientific discovery, as the Sally Ride Science Festival ...

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

In the early 1980s, NASA astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman to travel to space. Ride faced increased scrutiny and public attention as a result of her groundbreaking mission, but ...

Sally Ride accomplished multiple firsts when she entered orbit in 1983 at the age of 32, breaking barriers for female astronauts and women in science. Following her death in 2012 at age 61, a new ...

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’s Dr. Ride ...

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, you’re ...

Sally (now streaming on Disney+) is a no-frills documentary that fits its subject perfectly. And that subject is Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut to travel to space, whose no-nonsense ...

Tam O’Shaughnessy discusses her life-long relationship with Ride in the documentary 'Sally' Groundbreaking astronaut Sally Ride and her partner Tam O'Shaughnessy were together for 27 years Ride died ...