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On June 24, 1983, the space shuttle Challenger — carrying America’s first woman in space, Sally Ride — coasted to a safe ...
Sally Ride’s partner, Tam O’Shaughnessy, detailed her decision to reveal their 27-year romance before the famed astronaut died in 2012 following her battle with pancreatic cancer.
The documentary ‘Sally’ revisits the story of the first American woman to go into space and the hurdles she faced back on ...
Astronaut Sally Ride, mission specialist on STS-7, monitors control panels from the pilot's chair on the Flight Deck. Floating in front of her is a flight procedures notebook. Credit: NASA ...
Directed by Cristina Costantini, 'SALLY' not only celebrates the late astronaut also but reveals a side to her she felt she ...
Sally Ride is best known as the first American woman in space, but a new documentary sheds light on another significant aspect of her life — her secret, decades-long relationship with another woman.
Every once in a while, an extraordinary individual pops back into the public conscience that we haven’t heard from in years, ...
Sally Ride, the first American woman and known LGBTQ person in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger during mission STS-7 in June 1983. Aboard the Challenger, Ride assisted with the launch of ...
Documentary on Astronaut Sally Ride Goes Well Beyond the Public Life of a National Hero Despite being the most famous person on Earth for a while in 1983, when she flew on the space shuttle Challenger ...