Shuttle America

United Airlines apologised on Wednesday to a Muslim chaplain who said she was denied an unopened can of soda on an affiliated U.S. domestic flight by an attendant who said it could be used as a weapon.

At 32, Sally Ride burst onto the public stage when NASA chose her to be America's first woman in space. Ride inspired women the world over with her historic shuttle flight into space in 1983 and for blazing into NASA's exclusively male astronaut club.

Shuttle Discovery and its astronauts returned safely to Earth after making a rare flyover of America's heartland.

United Airlines apologised on Wednesday to a Muslim chaplain who said she was denied an unopened can of soda on an affiliated U.S. domestic flight by an attendant who said it could be used as a weapon.

At 32, Sally Ride burst onto the public stage when NASA chose her to be America's first woman in space. Ride inspired women the world over with her historic shuttle flight into space in 1983 and for blazing into NASA's exclusively male astronaut club.

Shuttle Discovery and its astronauts returned safely to Earth after making a rare flyover of America's heartland.