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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.

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 ...

On Monday afternoon President Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former astronaut, physicist, and entrepreneur Sally Ride, who died last July at age 61. In the announcement, ...

Tam O’Shaughnessy discusses her life-long relationship with Ride in the documentary 'Sally' Groundbreaking astronaut Sally Ride and her partner Tam O'Shaughnessy were together for 27 years Ride died ...

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 coins will enter into circulation next year as part of the American Women Quarters Program The U.S. Mint is honoring 20 trailblazing women on a new series of quarters, starting with Maya Angelou ...

Thirty-five years ago, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly into space. Before blasting off aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in June 1983 she faced intense media speculation about how ...

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 ...