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 ...

Director Cristina Costantini's documentary about the first U.S. woman in space bows at the annual Utah film festival.

Space was one of Sally Ride’s great loves. The National Geographic documentary, directed by Cristina Costantini, Introduces ...

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 American ...

When Sally Ride arrived at NASA’s Lyndon B ... “Sally” does great justice to an extraordinary astronaut and reluctant icon, someone who broke many barriers and deserves to be celebrated ...

“Do you think that you are as good as any male astronaut here?” On camera, when a reporter refers to her Miss Ride, she replies that he can address her as either Dr. Ride or Sally, but not ...

the former ABC News journalist who covered and befriended Ride before her first space flight and recently published the astronaut’s definitive biography, “Sally Ride: America’s First Woman ...

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 ...

Bear Ride, Sally's sister, and former NASA astronaut Cady Coleman were in the audience, as was O'Shaughnessy, whose birthday was celebrated by the filmmakers at a party on Monday night (Jan. 27).

Ride should have been able to be the remarkable astronaut she was and live “out and proud and all that stuff,” to quote O’Shaughnessy, pervades “Sally.” Much of the film is informed by O ...