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, ...

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 ...

NASA and President Obama are honoring the life and legacy of Sally Ride on the day a national tribute was held for the first American woman in space. The president announced Monday afternoon Ride will ...

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 ...

The remarkable life of the first American woman in space is profiled in this diverting but tame documentary. By Jeannette Catsoulis In a group portrait of America’s first female astronauts, Loren ...

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 ...

“He asked me, ‘Is 100 the right number?’ ” Ride says in the new documentary 'Sally'. “I said, ‘No. That would not be the ...