Sally
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE
9/8c, National Geographic
SALLY RIDE WAS the first American woman to travel in space. On Earth, she was over the moon for her partner of 27 years, Tam O’Shaughnessy. In this acclaimed film from Emmy-winning director Cristina Costantini (Science Fair), O’Shaughnessy gets candid about her private longtime romance with the famed physicist and NASA astronaut (right), who died in 2012 at age 61.
O’Shaughnessy, also an exec producer, says that her cosmic connection with Ride was “unique and transformative,” but she wanted the film to be an ode to the legendary woman, who broke barriers with her 1983 Challenger spaceflight. “I want the world to see Sally for who she truly was,” she notes. “Passionate, ambitious, brave, funny, comfortable in her own skin and, above all, full…
