Your Space Shuttle Ride Awaits A new ride at the Kennedy Space Center is — sadly — the closest most of us will come to experiencing the thrill of a shuttle launch.

The 44,000square foot, $60 million ride ... Full-size mock space shuttle makes first move towards Downey display. Signed steel beams 'top off' L.A. home for space shuttle Endeavour.

On June 18, 1983, she made history aboard the space shuttle. America's first woman in space had joined NASA after responding to a newspaper ad. "I knew that's what I wanted to do," she said.

In this film, taken a couple of years ago from a rocket booster on the space shuttle Discovery, you can see what it's like to blast into space, shooting ...

Following in Ride’s footsteps, Collins in 1995 became the first female pilot of NASA’s space shuttle program. Four years later, she also became the first woman to command a space shuttle mission.

On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space when the space shuttle Challenger launched on mission STS-7 from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

June 18 marks the anniversary of Ride’s ceiling-shattering, six-day mission on the space shuttle Challenger in 1983. It has been 40 years since Sally Ride became the first woman from the United ...

In an exclusive excerpt from her forthcoming book,The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts, Loren Grush traces how NASA picked Sally Ride, and why Ride’s struggle ...

Sally Ride became the first American woman in space on June 18, 1983, breaking barriers for women to pursue careers in STEM fields. On the 40th anniversary of Ride's historic flight into space ...