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Sally Ride was the 1st American woman to go to space, flying on the STS-7 space shuttle Challenger mission in 1983, and later on another mission in 1984.

It is fantastic to meet you. your story is, it just mesmerize us at cnn. i wanted to ask you that day that you were first arrested, what was going through your mind knowing that you were innocent? >> i've heard a million different words to describe it. there isn't a single word that actually describes what you think. surrealistic is the most common term that you hear. for a moment i actually thought i had lost my hearing. that he couldn't possibly have said what he said to me. you're under arrest. and your mind just begins to rocket around in your brain. and you start thinking, this can't poss...

We're going to have more on the missing malaysian jet shortly, but the story of gloria killian. she was locked away in a california prison for more than 16 years, convicted of being the master mind behind a robbery and murder. killian always maintained her innocence but testimony from alleged accomplice sealed her conviction. and although she had been a law school student with a clean record, she could find no way to prove her innocence and no one to even listen to her story. until the day she met joyce. >> in 1992, after six years behind bars, gloria received a visit that would change her lif...

The new cnn original series "death row stories" takes a look at the stories behind capital murder cases. and this weekend's episode starts with a home invasion to steal silver back in 1981, and that's where everything unravel unraveled. a man ended up dead. his wife ended up nearly dead. one of the two men accused in the case pointed to a woman claiming that she was the one who orchestrated the whole thing. and that woman's name was gloria killian. that's gloria. she was a former law student. said she'd never even met the suspect, gary mass. didn't matter. police charged her anyway. and a jury...