the former ABC News journalist who covered and befriended Ride before her first space flight and recently published the astronaut’s definitive biography, “Sally Ride: America’s First Woman ...

And an astronaut. Growing up in the ... Yet here, onstage, was Sally Ride, a bright-eyed young woman in a blue flight suit and black boots and with wavy brown hair kind of like mine.

"Sally Ride, the astronaut and the person, allowed many young girls across the world to believe they could achieve anything if they studied and worked hard. I think she would be pleased with that ...

Min Read Astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan checks the latch of the SIR-B antenna in the space shuttle Challenger's open cargo bay ...

If, only a couple of weeks ago, you dropped the name Sally Ride into the conversation anywhere ... She is the first American woman astronaut and is off with four men on the sixth mission of ...

China's Shenzhou-9 spacecraft was launched into orbit Saturday, carrying three astronauts, including the country's first female astronaut, officials said. Science News // 1 decade ago Mission ...

The 13th flight of the space shuttle program and the sixth of Challenger, STS-41G holds many distinctions. As the first mission focused almost ...

It took Nasa 20 years to catch up and in 1983 Sally Ride became the third woman ... demonstrable effect that going into space has on an astronaut's ability to have children.

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Mike Mullane, author of "Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut." As a 12-year-old, he watched the Sputnik launch, and that was when he decided to work in the space ...