Makeup. Though NASA engineers offered to create a spaceflight-ready makeup kit for her journey, she turned them down, and reporters often commented on her freckled, fresh-faced appearance.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Queer astronaut documentary takes on new meaning in Trump's US Bénédicte Rey AFP Jun 17, 2025 Updated Jun 18, 2025 1 of 3 Sally Ride became the first US women in space on June 24, 1983 ...

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.

To simulate menstrual fluid, the team used glycerol, a thick liquid similar in consistency to blood. In both pre-flight and ...

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 ...