Physicist and astronaut Ride, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2012 at the age of 61, is best remembered as the first ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Cristina Costantini, director of the new documentary, "Sally," about the life of astronaut ...

See Sally Ride’s boundary-breaking life in photos 41 years ago, she became the first American woman in space. Our photographer documents what was it like to be an astronaut—and queer—in the ...

National Geographic’s Sally Ride documentary tells the story of America’s first woman in space and the love she kept secret ...

Narrated by Kenneth Branagh, it was inspired by "Jurassic Park" and at the time was the most expensive documentary per-minute ...

California physicist and astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman to blast off into space, thrusting her into the national spotlight. But beneath her unflappable public persona, she ...

But the good news is, for documentaries it’s a golden age. And many of the year’s docs are squarely aimed at the AARP ...

On June 28 the Museum celebrates women in spaceflight with astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman pilot and commander of a NASA space shuttle, and four-time shuttle astronaut Wendy Lawrence.… Read ...

Sally Ride was the first American woman in space, and when she died in 2012, her obituary publicly revealed that she was gay. KCRW hears from her partner Tam O’Shaughnessy, plus the director of the ...

The U.S. shipped a nuclear reactor to Tehran in the late 1960s. After it cut diplomatic ties with Iran after the Islamic ...

Sally Ride, the first American woman to go to space, is the focus of this new documentary that chronicles her life.

Uncover the untold love story of astronaut Sally Ride. "Sally" premieres June 16 on National Geographic and the next day on ...