Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MELBOURNE, Fla. — Sally Ride shattered the glass ceiling on June 18, 1983, in dramatic fashion aboard NASA’s space shuttle ...
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Air and Space Museum hosts Sally’s Night June 20

WASHINGTON — The National Air and Space Museum will hold its annual Sally’s Night on June 20 from 6 to 11 p.m. The event ...
On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space when the space shuttle Challenger launched on mission STS-7. (NASA) The morning of June 18, 1983, hundreds of thousands of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The couple were together for 27 years, starting in the mid-1980s and registered as domestic partners just before Sally’s death in ...
Orange County Regional History Center has a trio of gatherings set for June, exploring Central Florida-based topics such as lightning and LGBTQ resilience plus Sally’s Night, a science-driven event in ...
Orange County Regional History Center will celebrate Sally’s Night, a salute to the legacy of astronaut Sally Ride, with family-friendly activities and a presentation by NASA chief technologist ...
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 ...
In 1983, the stars aligned for Sally Ride to become America’s first woman in space. In 1983, the stars aligned for Sally Ride to become America’s first woman in space. In 1983, the stars aligned for ...
The upcoming National Geographic documentary "Sally" offers an intimate look at the life of Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel into space. Directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Cristina ...
The morning of June 18, 1983, hundreds of thousands of spectators awaited the Challenger space shuttle launch at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Some people in the crowd wore T-shirts ...
Two months ago, Sally Ride was literally in the clouds as the first American woman in space, but ever since she and the crew from the Space shuttle Challenger touched down, Sally Ride has been ...
On June 18, 1983, she made history aboard the space shuttle. America's first woman in space had joined NASA after responding to a newspaper ad. "I... 40 years ago, Sally Ride became the first American ...