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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.
Kathy is not just an ivory-tower scientist. She was part of NASA's first class of female astronauts, selected in 1978, and went on to fly three shuttle missions. She is the first American woman to walk in space and served aboard the mission that deployed the Hubble Space Telescope.
First Russian woman to travel in two different spacecraft, Soyuz TM-20 and STS-84; both were on trips to Mir Space Station. First Russian woman to travel on the Space Shuttle. Soyuz TM-20 (Oct. 3, 1994) STS-84 (May 15, 1997) 27 Eileen Collins Nov. 19, 1956 United States: First female shuttle pilot and shuttle commander. STS-63 (Feb. 3, 1995)
On June 18, 1983, a new era in NASA spaceflight began when Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly into space, but the groundwork for her accomplishments was laid decades beforehand in ...
Harris noted that one issue that came up constantly was that of when the all-white, all-male NASA Astronaut Corps would recruit its first woman or a minority astronaut.In a July 19, 1972, memorandum to Ted Groo, the Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, she urged that this be rectified as a matter of urgency. [17]
This was the first time a woman had piloted the Space Shuttle. [55] Delays in the flight schedule meant that she was the second-last member of her class to fly in space. [56] Two more women pilots joined the Astronaut Corps in 1995 with NASA Astronaut Group 15: Pamela Melroy and Susan Still. They would be the only other women to pilot the Space ...
It was the first spaceflight of an American woman (Ride), the largest crew to fly in a single spacecraft up to that time (five people), and the first flight that included members of NASA's Group 8 astronaut class, which had been selected in 1978 to fly the Space Shuttle.
Paramount Pictures / First Artists: Carl Reiner (director); Steve Gordon (screenplay); Henry Winkler, Kim Darby, Gene Saks, William Daniels, Polly Holliday, Hervé Villechaize, Ed Begley Jr., Warren Stevens, Hard Boiled Haggerty, Ralph Manza, Chavo Guerrero Sr., Dennis James, Rowdy Roddy Piper: 4 Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid ...