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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: Ride next to a Space Shuttle window, with Earth in the background. [44] Phebe Hemphill: Elana Hagler: March 22, 2022 278,000,000 275,200,000 304,000 553,504,000 3 Wilma Mankiller: Mankiller wearing a shawl, by a seven-pointed Cherokee Nation star and ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ ("Cherokee Nation" in Cherokee syllabary). [45] Benjamin ...
Sally Ride was the first American woman in space. [195] Vanessa L. Williams was the first African-American winner of the Miss America pageant (Miss America 1984). [196] Linda Foust was the first woman to drive in the U.S. Presidential motorcade as an Army non-commissioned officer. [197] 1984
The poet and astronaut will make history again as two of 20 distinguished women to be honored by the U.S. Mint.
Astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in 1983 on STS-7, and Eileen Collins was the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle during STS-63 in 1995. Collins also became the first woman to command a Space Shuttle mission during STS-93 in 1999. In 2005, she commanded NASA's return to flight mission, STS-114.
Kristen Stewart is reaching for the stars: The Oscar nominee has signed on to play famed astronaut Sally Ride in an upcoming limited series chronicling the 1986 Challenger disaster, marking her ...
Kristen Stewart will play Sally Ride in The Challenger, a limited TV series based on Meredith Bagby’s 2022 book, The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed ...
With Sally Ride on STS-41-G In September 1985 Sullivan was assigned to the STS-61-J mission, which was scheduled to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in August 1986. [ 22 ] The original intention was that the HST would be periodically retrieved by the Space Shuttle and returned to Earth for maintenance, although some components were ...