The mementoes — a set of more than 50 pieces called the Sally Ride Estate Collection — sold for a total of $145,666, ...

Sally Ride was world-famous for being the first American woman in space. But for all her publicity in that arena, Ride was a private person whose personal life was not widely known until after her ...

Medals owned by pioneering astronaut Sally Ride took center stage in a recent Nate D. Sanders auction and the lots included ...

It has been 40 years since Sally Ride became the first woman from the United States to travel into outer space. June 18 marks the anniversary of Ride’s ceiling-shattering, six-day mission on the ...

The push-pull of Ride's life was seemingly omnipresent, particularly after she joined the first class of potential NASA astronauts to welcome women and minorities (NASA Astronaut Group 8), by way ...

Sally Ride’s partner, Tam O’Shaughnessy, detailed her decision to reveal their 27-year romance before the famed astronaut ...

Sally Ride, an astronaut and physicist who in 1983 became the first American woman sent into space, died of pancreatic cancer Monday at her home in La Jolla, Calif. She was 61.

It has been 40 years since Sally Ride became the first woman from the United States to travel into outer space. June 18 marks the anniversary of Ride’s ceiling-shattering, six-day mission on the ...

Sally Ride soared into history 35 years ago as the first American woman in space. This week, six years after her death made her eligible for recognition, the United States Postal Service is ...

Sally Ride, shown aboard the Challenger in 1983, was well-known as America’s first female astronaut. A new biography reveals a private life few knew.