RV Sally Ride (AGOR-28) is a Neil Armstrong-class research vessel owned by the United States Navy and operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Sally Ride is a commercially designed, monohull research vessel, capable of both coastal and deep ocean oceanography operations.

[5] Sailing 50 kilometres (31 mi) off the coast of Southern California, the ship was used to develop special acoustic doppler sonar sensors to monitor sediments pumped out of a pipe and constrain models for ocean policy regarding polymetallic nodules in the Clarion–Clipperton fracture zone.

Sally Ride commonly undertakes work with the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries (CalCOFI) program, and in 2020, fielded the first all-female science party.

[7] In 2021, an oceanographic high-resolution mapping survey on the Sally Ride found nearly 27,000 objects in the San Pedro Basin (between the coastline of Long Beach and Catalina Island).