Sally Ride

Google is celebrating 64th birth anniversary of American physicist and astronaut Sally Ride by posting an animation on its homepage.

The United Nations has commemorated the first space flight by a woman over 50 years ago and the contributions by women to that endeavor since then, hailing these "trailblazers" as powerful role models for young women and men worldwide.

US President Barack Obama has announced to award the nation's highest civilian honour posthumously to the first American female astronaut Dr Sally Ride for her contributions to the US space program and education system.

Two NASA probes crashed into the moon on Monday after spending months gathering data by orbiting miles above the lunar surface, the US space agency said.

At 32, Sally Ride burst onto the public stage when NASA chose her to be America's first woman in space. Ride inspired women the world over with her historic shuttle flight into space in 1983 and for blazing into NASA's exclusively male astronaut club.

Sally Ride, who blazed trails into orbit as the first American woman in space, died on Monday of pancreatic cancer. She was 61.

A NASA spacecraft in orbit around the moon has sent back five dozen new images of the lunar surface including a view of the far side with Earth in the distance. Don't thank scientists for it. Fourth-graders from Emily Dickinson Elementary School in Bozeman, Mont., directed the spacecraft to snap pictures as part of a project headed by Sally Ride, t...

Google is celebrating 64th birth anniversary of American physicist and astronaut Sally Ride by posting an animation on its homepage.

The United Nations has commemorated the first space flight by a woman over 50 years ago and the contributions by women to that endeavor since then, hailing these "trailblazers" as powerful role models for young women and men worldwide.

US President Barack Obama has announced to award the nation's highest civilian honour posthumously to the first American female astronaut Dr Sally Ride for her contributions to the US space program and education system.

Two NASA probes crashed into the moon on Monday after spending months gathering data by orbiting miles above the lunar surface, the US space agency said.

At 32, Sally Ride burst onto the public stage when NASA chose her to be America's first woman in space. Ride inspired women the world over with her historic shuttle flight into space in 1983 and for blazing into NASA's exclusively male astronaut club.

Sally Ride, who blazed trails into orbit as the first American woman in space, died on Monday of pancreatic cancer. She was 61.

A NASA spacecraft in orbit around the moon has sent back five dozen new images of the lunar surface including a view of the far side with Earth in the distance. Don't thank scientists for it. Fourth-graders from Emily Dickinson Elementary School in Bozeman, Mont., directed the spacecraft to snap pictures as part of a project headed by Sally Ride, t...