On Monday afternoon President Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former astronaut, physicist, and entrepreneur Sally Ride, who died last July at age 61. In the announcement, ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, National Geographic Documentary Films released the trailer and key art for SALLY, a film that honors the life of Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel to ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The couple were together for 27 years, starting in the mid-1980s and registered as domestic partners just before Sally’s death in ...

A bronze statue of Sally Ride, the first U.S. woman in space, was dedicated at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City on Long Island on Friday—the nation’s first monument to a woman astronaut.

When the space shuttle Challenger launched on June 18, 1983, astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. At 32 years old, she was also the youngest American to ever rocket into ...

It has been 40 years since Sally Ride became the first woman from the United States to travel into outer space. June 18 marks the anniversary of Ride’s ceiling-shattering, six-day mission on the space ...

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 ...

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 ...