When pioneering female astronaut Sally Ride died of pancreatic cancer in 2012, ... Makeup. Though NASA engineers offered to create a spaceflight-ready makeup kit for her journey, ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Cristina Costantini, director of the new documentary, "Sally," about the life of astronaut ...

A Love Story" blends high-stakes space drama with layered emotional relationships, following two women astronauts during a ...

Famously, NASA dudes prepped for her trip by packing her a makeup kit (feel free to shake your head in disbelief) and 100 tampons. Yes, 100. Hey NASA dudes: You should’ve just asked.

Out of 8000 applicants for the astronaut training programme, 1500 were women – Ride, a PhD candidate in physics, among them. NASA ultimately hired 40 aspiring astronauts.

NASA only started allowing women to apply as astronaut recruits in 1977. Ride, who had a PhD in astrophysics from Stanford University and was an accomplished tennis player, was one of six women ...

Journalists asked whether she cried when facing difficulty. NASA engineers asked about what make-up she would need in space. They even worried whether 100 tampons would be enough for her six-day ...

Joan Goodwin, an astronomer who has been in love with the stars since childhood, learns one day in 1980 that NASA is seeking the first women astronauts to join its space shuttle program. Taylor ...

NASA says that more astronauts, including some from international partners, will be added in the future. But this group is the first to begin preparing for NASA’s 21st-century moon missions.