Sally Ride made history in a way that reshaped NASA and women in STEM. Ride became the first American woman in space when she launched aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-7. At just ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

After a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, trailblazer Sally Ride has died. In 1978 she was one of six women chosen by NASA from among 8,000 applicants to join the astronaut corps. She went on to ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Sally Ride was the first American woman in space when she rode on Space Shuttle Challenger from KSC’s Launch Complex 39-A on June 18, 1983. She broke barriers, but she wasn’t ...

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 ...

On June 18, 1983, a young physicist from California took her seat aboard the Space Shuttle and prepared to launch into history. Dr. Sally Ride was about to become the first American woman in space.

LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- A stretch of the 101 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley will be renamed in honor of Encino native Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. A resolution passed by the state ...

Created by Emmy Award-winning director Cristina Costantini with National Geographic, “Sally” challenges common perception of feminist icon Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly to space, ...

Of all the barriers to equality that women smashed in the 1960s and 1970s, one of the most exciting was seeing women leave the Earth and join the exploration of space. No one is better known to ...