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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.
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.
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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 ...
As Sally Ride prepared to make history as the first American woman in space, it should have been a moment when science was celebrated. But instead, a reporter asked a question that stunned Ride ...
She was the first woman in space, having flown a solo mission on Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. She orbited the Earth 48 times, spent almost three days in space, is the only woman to have been on a solo space mission and is the last surviving Vostok programme cosmonaut.
Although both Cobb and Cochran made separate appeals for years afterwards to restart a women's astronaut testing project, the U.S. civil space agency did not select any female astronaut candidates until Astronaut Group 8 in 1978, which selected astronauts for the operational Space Shuttle program. Astronaut Sally Ride became the first American ...