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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.
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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.
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
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.
Sally Ride, joint 120th person and the first American woman in space Guion Bluford, joint 125th person and the first African American in space Bruce McCandless, joint 133rd person in space and the first to perform an untethered EVA Rakesh Sharma, 139th person and the first Indian in space Anna Lee Fisher, joint 155th person and the first mother ...
The Ride Report is the informal name of the report titled NASA Leadership and America's Future in Space: A Report to the Administrator. [1] In 1986, a task force under the leadership of Sally Ride was asked to formulate a new strategy for NASA. The report was issued in 1987. The Ride Report proposed four main initiatives for study and evaluation.