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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 (1951–2012), the first American woman in space, was an astronaut and physicist. Sally Ride may also refer to: Sally Ride Science, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California, USA; Sally Ride Elementary School, Orange County Public Schools, Orange County, Florida, USA
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.
USA TODAY’s Daily Crossword Puzzles Sudoku & Crossword Puzzle Answers This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Crossword Blog & Answers for January 2, 2025 by Sally Hoelscher
In “The Six: The Untold Stories of America’s First Women Astronauts,” Loren Grush recounts the pressures and challenges faced by NASA’s first class of female astronauts.
In 1963 Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space on her Vostok 6 flight of 48 orbits, and is the only woman to fly solo in space. The following is a list of women who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight. This list includes Russian cosmonauts, who were the first women in outer space.
Sally Ride became the first American women in space, when she flew in June 1983 on the Space Shuttle mission STS-7 to space. The first US woman to perform Extravehicular activity (EVA) was Kathryn D. Sullivan on the STS-41-G , which launched on October 11, 1984.
USA TODAY’s Daily Crossword Puzzles Sudoku & Crossword Puzzle Answers This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Crossword Blog & Answers for December 7, 2024 by Sally Hoelscher