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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.
Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
First African American commercial Astronaut. Inspiration4 (September 16, 2021) 17 Michael Strahan November 21, 1971 First African American space tourist Blue Origin NS-19 (December 11, 2021) 18 Jessica Watkins May 14, 1988 First African American woman to be an ISS expedition crew member SpaceX Crew-4 (April 27, 2022) 19 Jaison Robinson ...
In 1978, Ride was among the first women to enter NASA’s space program. Her groundbreaking compatriots were Judith Resnik, Anna Fisher, Shannon Lucid, Margaret Seddon and Kathryn Sullivan.
Kristen Stewart is set to lead a television show for the first time, playing astronaut Sally Ride in limited series The Challenger.. Ride, who died in 2012, was a physicist who became the first ...
The series, titled The Challenger and reportedly nearing a deal with Amazon, will follow Ride and her diverse class of NASA astronauts, with Ride becoming the first American woman in space in 1983 ...
When Sally Ride became the first female US astronaut to go into space in 1983, the press asked her questions about her reproductive organs and whether she would cry if things went wrong on the job. [40] Women with children have also been faced with questions about how they would compare to traditional expectations of motherhood. [41]
African American chemist who developed the most effective treatment for leprosy in the early 1920s. ... Sally Ride, 1951-2012. Astronaut and the first American woman to go to space.