A statue of astronaut Sally Ride will be unveiled Tuesday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum. Here Ride is shown on the 1983 Challenger mission when she became the first American woman ...

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 ...

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 ...

The morning of June 18, 1983, hundreds of thousands of spectators awaited the Challenger space shuttle launch at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Some people in the crowd wore T-shirts ...

41 years ago, she became the first American woman in space. Our photographer documents what was it like to be an astronaut—and queer—in the 1980s. When pioneering female astronaut Sally Ride died of ...

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.

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 ...

The remarkable life of the first American woman in space is profiled in this diverting but tame documentary. By Jeannette Catsoulis In a group portrait of America’s first female astronauts, Loren ...