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Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist.Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982.
Sally Ride was the first American female astronaut to travel to space. As a role model to generations of young women, she advocated passionately for science education, stood up for racial and gender equality in the classroom, and taught students from every background that there are no limits to what they can accomplish.
Sally Ride Elementary School, Orange County Public Schools, Orange County, Florida, USA Sally Ride Space Telescope , a proposed name for what is now the NASA James Webb Space Telescope S.S. Sally Ride , a space ship, the Cygnus space capsule used on the 2022 CRS mission NG-18 cargo resupply to the International Space Station
In 2001, Ride, O'Shaughnessy, and three like-minded friends—Karen Flammer, Terry McEntee, and Alann Lopes—founded Sally Ride Science with the goal of narrowing the gender gap in science. [ 19 ] From 2001 to 2015, O'Shaughnessy served as the company's Chief Creative Officer , overseeing all content—books, websites, and teacher training ...
The crew of STS-7 included Robert Crippen, commander, making his second Shuttle flight; Frederick Hauck, pilot; and Sally Ride, John M. Fabian and Norman Thagard, all mission specialists. Thagard conducted medical tests concerning Space adaptation syndrome , a bout of nausea frequently experienced by astronauts during the early phase of a space ...
When astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space on the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983, many in the crowd attending the launch wore T-shirts printed with a play on the lyric, "Ride, Sally Ride." [17] On Fox's TV show Glee, Noah Guthrie covered the song in the second episode of the sixth season ("Homecoming").
"Ride, Sally, Ride", a 2014 episode of the TV show Scandal season 3; Ride, Sally Ride: A Photobiography of America's Pioneering Woman in Space, a 2015 biography of astronaut Sally Ride by Tam O'Shaughnessy; Ride Sally Ride (Sex Rules), a 2020 novel by Douglas Wilson (theologian)
Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American physicist and astronaut. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983. She remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32.