Those same obituaries often ignored or minimized the jaw-dropping sexism Ride faced when she entered the first class of NASA astronauts to include women in 1978. In the richly detailed Sally ...

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 ...

"Sally" shows how much resistance — and ignorance — NASA's first female astronauts encountered. When engineers put together supplies for Ride's first shuttle flight, they gave her a makeup kit.

Sally Ride became the first American woman in space ... "I thought, 'Oh my God, you know, if NASA was barely ready for women, I doubt they were ready for this. I wonder what that was like at ...

A compelling story of love, friendship, bravery and fear, “Sally ... Ride’s loved ones — interviewees include her partner O’Shaughnessy, her sister, Bear, her mother, Joyce, peers from ...

Sally’s sister, Bear Ride; and mother, Carol Joyce Ride, and more of NASA's class of 1978: Anna Fisher, Kathy Sullivan, John Fabian, Steve Hawley. It's an excellent doc and I'm glad it'll be ...

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Sally Ride during her first trip into space, STS-7, in 1983. NASA Spectacular as the view is from 200 miles up, the Earth is not the awe-inspiring “blue marble” made famous by the photos from ...

SALLY RIDE’S LIFE PARTNER ... AND SHE DEFLECTS THEM ALL IN A BRILLIANT WAY. THE THINGS THAT THAT NASA ROCKET SCIENTISTS DECIDE TO SEND UP WITH HER IN SPACE IS PRETTY FUNNY.

Ride joined NASA in 1978 and flew on the Space Shuttle ... who narrates the film. “A film such as ‘Sally’ provides a great look at what the world saw and didn’t see in her life,” Kathryn ...