The first American woman in space, Sally Ride, got in on the act ... Landing a US astronaut on Mars to plant a flag is an order of magnitude more complex. As far as astronauts walking on foreign ...

Space was one of Sally Ride’s great loves. The National Geographic documentary, directed by Cristina Costantini, Introduces ...

“It’s Dr. Ride or Sally, but not Miss,” she says, flashing a smile that softened the lecture and much of director Cristina Costantini’s absorbing documentary the first American woman to go ...

The film focuses on how Ride became the ... Reporter described Sally as “a clear-eyed film” that offers an “engaging, socially relevant portrait of an American heroine.” ...

NASA Engineers thought Sally Ride would need 100 tampons for one week in space. Ride, who became the first American woman in space in 1983, recalls NASA engineers designing a toiletry kit for her in ...

Directed by Cristina Costantini, the film features archival footage of the late astronaut and interviews with her family and colleagues, as well as narration by her partner of 27 years, Tam ...

By Caryn James When Sally Ride died in 2012, she was praised as the first American woman in space ... faced when she entered the first class of NASA astronauts to include women in 1978.

Director Cristina Costantini's documentary about the first U.S. woman in space bows at the annual Utah film festival.