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The mementoes — a set of more than 50 pieces called the Sally Ride Estate Collection — sold for a total of $145,666, ...
Astronaut Sally Ride gave her life partner permission to talk about their relationship 10 days before Ride's 2012 death. Tam ...
Sally Ride is best known as the first American woman in space, but a new documentary sheds light on another significant aspect of her life — her secret, decades-long relationship with another woman.
Ride became a national celebrity and hero to girls everywhere when she blasted off on the space shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1985. Dr. Ride, not Miss as reporters constantly labeled her, was a PhD ...
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Cristina Costantini, director of the new documentary, "Sally," about the life of astronaut ...
National Geographic’s Sally Ride documentary tells the story of America’s first woman in space and the love she kept secret ...
Directed by Cristina Costantini, 'SALLY' not only celebrates the late astronaut also but reveals a side to her she felt she ...
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 ...
Space was one of Sally Ride’s great loves. The National Geographic documentary, directed by Cristina Costantini, Introduces the other.
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?
A collection of more than 50 pieces of memorabilia previously owned by Sally Ride, the first American woman to reach space, sold at auction last week for more than $145,000.
Ride’s life partner Tam O’Shaughnessy opens up about their 27-year romance in Sally, which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival in January and will debut on Nat Geo June 16 and stream ...