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 ...

The new Sally Ride documentary "Sally" chronicles the astronaut's career, but gets into thorny territory when it conjectures about her personal life.

Mae Jemison's historic spaceflight as the first African American woman in space inspired Taraji P. Henson's portrayal in ...

What do you know about Sally Ride? For American citizens of a certain age, science wonks, space geeks, and feminist historians, the easiest answer is the most obvious one: she was the first ...

NASA Engineers thought Sally Ride would need 100 tampons for one week in space. Ride, who became the first American woman in space in 1983, recalls NASA engineers designing a toiletry kit for her in ...

A splendid portrait of the first American woman and the youngest American astronaut to travel into space, SALLY, which ...

Filmmaker Cristina Costantini is leaving the Sundance Film Festival with an award and with distribution already secured for her documentary Sally, about the late astronaut Sally Ride, the first ...

Sally Ride wanted to be remembered as being fearless. In reality, though, the first American woman to fly into space was scared — and it had nothing to do with her leaving the planet.

Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, was a childhood hero to many, including Cristina Costantini. The director of “Sally,” a new documentary that chronicles both the public an ...

By Caryn James When Sally Ride died in 2012, she was praised as the first American woman in space, but there was much more to the story. Her obituaries let the world know a secret she had long ...

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.