A set of memorabilia chronicling Sally Ride's pioneering path to space just fetched a pretty penny at auction. In June 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to reach the final frontier, on ...

SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- In November, the S.S. Sally Ride Cygnus cargo spacecraft launched from NASA's Virginia site en route to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was named after the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This NASA twenty-fifth anniversary ...

On 1978, NASA selected its eighth and most diverse class of astronauts yet. The Astronaut Class of 1978, also known as the ...

Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, has passed away at the age of 61 after a courageous 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, her foundation said in a press release. At the age of 32, ...

PASADENA, Calif.-A pair of NASA spacecraft crashed into a mountain near the moon's north pole on Monday, bringing a deliberate end to a mission that peered into the lunar interior. Engineers commanded ...

Sally Ride was the first American woman to go to space back in 1983. And for a while, it seemed like she was the most famous person on Earth and in space. She dominated headlines. She was all over TV.