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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. She was the youngest American astronaut to have ...
STS-7 carried Sally Ride, America's first female astronaut. Crew. Position Astronaut ... It was the first spaceflight of an American woman (Ride), ...
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
First woman in space. Only woman to make a solo spaceflight. Vostok 6 (Jun. 16, 1963) [6] 2 Svetlana Savitskaya Aug. 8, 1948 Soviet Union: First woman to fly on a space station (Salyut 7, 1982). First woman to perform a spacewalk (Jul. 25, 1984). First woman to make two spaceflights. Soyuz T-5 (Jul. 19, 1982) Soyuz T-12 (Jul. 17, 1984) 3 Sally ...
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 ...
A statue of NASA astronaut Sally Ride was installed outside the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, New York, in 2022. [1] Ride, the first American woman in space, is shown holding a Space Shuttle in her right hand and pointing it skywards.
It was the first shuttle mission to carry a crew of seven, including the first crew with two women (Sally K. Ride and Kathryn D. Sullivan), the first American Extravehicular activity (EVA) involving a woman (Sullivan), the first Australian-born person to journey into space as well as the first astronaut with a beard [2] [3] (Paul D. Scully ...
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