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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 ...
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.
English: Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, takes your questions via Facebook and Twitter to kick off a night of astronomy at the White House. October 7, 2009. October 7, 2009. (Public Domain)
This is Father's Day. On June 18, 1983, astronaut Sally K. Ride became America’s first woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger on a six-day mission.
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 ...
Sally Ride accomplished multiple firsts when she entered orbit in 1983 at the age of 32, breaking barriers for female astronauts and women in science.. Following her death in 2012 at age 61, a new ...
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. She flew on the Space Shuttle Challenger twice, on mission STS-7 in 1983 and STS-41-G in 1984.
Kristen Stewart will play Sally Ride in The Challenger, a limited TV series based on Meredith Bagby’s 2022 book, The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed ...