Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in 1983. Forty years later, NASA is preparing to send a woman to the moon for the first time.

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 ...

Sally Ride, the United States' first woman in space, who flew 35 years today (June 18), in 1983, has inspired countless people, as she lived a life committed to science, education and inclusion ...

Ride taught physics at the University of California San Diego before founding her own company, Sally Ride Science, in 2001. The foundation aims to keep kids' interest in science alive.

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 ...

Ride died of cancer in 2012 at the age of 61. "As the first American woman in space, Dr. Sally Ride made history when she shattered the highest glass ceiling,'' Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, D-Encino ...