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When the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on June 18, 1983, Ride became the first American woman to fly in space, and the third woman overall. [4] She also became the youngest American astronaut in space, although there had been younger cosmonauts. [22]
She was chosen as an astronaut candidate by NASA, and in 1983 she was selected to serve on a six-day flight of the orbiter Challenger, becoming the first American woman to reach outer space. The bisexual Ride engaged in a lesbian relationship with the writer Tam O'Shaughnessy from 1985 until her death on July 23, 2012 from pancreatic cancer.
Jun 16, 2023 · On June 18, 1983, space shuttle Challenger lifted off on its second journey to space, the STS-7 mission. Among its five-person crew, Challenger carried the first American woman into space, NASA astronaut Sally K. Ride.
When astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space on the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983, many in the crowd attending the launch wore T-shirts printed with a play on the lyric, "Ride, Sally Ride." [17] On Fox's TV show Glee, Noah Guthrie covered the song in the second episode of the sixth season ("Homecoming").
Jul 24, 2012 · The song lyrics “Ride, Sally, ride” seemed like they were written just for her. (They weren’t, but no matter, they still fit for a woman who refused to keep her feet on the ground.) Her 1983 voyage into space, the first for an American woman, came late — the Russians had done it first, 20 years earlier — but still managed to be momentous.
“Sally Ride” was inspired by Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012). Sally Kristen Ride joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American women to travel to space, at just 32...
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In a space agency filled with trailblazers, Sally Ride was a pioneer of a different sort. The soft-spoken California physicist broke the gender barrier on June 18, 1983, when she became the first American woman in space.
