The mementoes — a set of more than 50 pieces called the Sally Ride Estate Collection — sold for a total of $145,666, ...

Physicist and astronaut Ride, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2012 at the age of 61, is best remembered as the first ...

This year, we’ve already gotten a Sally Ride documentary and another Ryan Gosling astronaut movie, but the biggest ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Cristina Costantini, director of the new documentary, "Sally," about the life of astronaut ...

National Geographic’s Sally Ride documentary tells the story of America’s first woman in space and the love she kept secret ...

Director Simon West, whose action movie credits include "Con Air" and "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," seems to be making a parody ...

Narrated by Kenneth Branagh, it was inspired by "Jurassic Park" and at the time was the most expensive documentary per-minute ...

California physicist and astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman to blast off into space, thrusting her into the national spotlight. But beneath her unflappable public persona, she ...

Sally K. Ride (May 26, 1951–July 23, 2012) became the first American woman in space in 1983. She was one of six women selected to enter the astronaut corps in 1978. While all six women flew on space ...

On June 28 the Museum celebrates women in spaceflight with astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman pilot and commander of a NASA space shuttle, and four-time shuttle astronaut Wendy Lawrence.… Read ...

Sally Ride was the first American woman in space, and when she died in 2012, her obituary publicly revealed that she was gay. KCRW hears from her partner Tam O’Shaughnessy, plus the director of the ...

A rare collection of items from the estate of Dr. Sally Ride —the first American woman in space—is now up for auction at Nate ...