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  2. Sally Ride - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. STS-7 - Wikipedia

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    It was the first spaceflight of an American woman (Ride), the largest crew to fly in a single spacecraft up to that time (five people), and the first flight that included members of NASA's Group 8 astronaut class, which had been selected in 1978 to fly the Space Shuttle.

  4. List of women astronauts - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Legacy of pioneering women at NASA continues to inspire today

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    More than two decades after Alan Shepard became the first American to reach space, Sally Ride took to the sky to become the first woman astronaut to fly in space. Ride made two journeys into orbit ...

  6. Kristen Stewart to play real-life US hero in television debut

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    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 ...

  7. Women in NASA - Wikipedia

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    Sally Ride, America's first woman astronaut. On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride made history as the first American woman astronaut to go into space. [8] About more than a year later, Judith Resnik took the Space Shuttle Discovery into space and became the second American woman in space. [7] [8] In 1988, Ellen Ochoa joined NASA and became the first ...

  8. Kristen Stewart Sets First TV Lead Role as Astronaut Sally ...

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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.

  9. Kathryn D. Sullivan - Wikipedia

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    It was the first astronaut group to include women. Sullivan was one of the three members of the group (the others being Sally Ride and Steve Hawley) for whom NASA astronaut would be their first full-time paid job since leaving university. [13] Using binoculars to view Earth during STS-41-G