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3 days ago · 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.
May 22, 2024 · Sally Ride (born May 26, 1951, Encino, California, U.S.—died July 23, 2012, La Jolla, California) was an American astronaut, the first American woman to travel into outer space. Only two other women preceded her: Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982), both from the former Soviet Union.
4 days ago · The Love Lies Bleeding star is set to star in the upcoming limited series The Challenger as real-life queer astronaut Sally Ride, a mainstay of the Space Shuttle program. In 1983, Ride made history as the first American woman to go into space. She graduated from NASA’s astronaut class of 1978, the first class to include women and people of ...
May 26, 2024 · On June 18, 1983, Sally K. Ride became the first North American female astronaut to be sent into space. People around the world could hear the glass ceiling shattering as this 31-year-old...
Jun 2, 2024 · Sally Ride was a trailblazing American astronaut and physicist who made history on June 18, 1983, when she became the first American woman to travel into space. Born on May 26, 1951, in Los Angeles, California, Ride's fascination with science and space exploration led her to a career that broke barriers and inspired generations.
May 27, 2024 · WASHINGTON — Sally Ride, who blazed trails into orbit as the first American woman in space, died Monday of pancreatic cancer. She was 61. Ride died at her home in the San Diego suburb of La...
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May 26, 2024 · On May 26, 1951, Sally Kristen Ride was born in Encino, California. In 1983, Ride became the first American woman in space as member of the space shuttle Challenger crew STS-7. She was a member of the panels investigating the Challenger explosion and the space shuttle Columbia disaster.
May 30, 2024 · Sally Ride Science at UC San Diego is a nonprofit organization run by the University of California San Diego. It was founded as a company in 2001 by Sally Ride, America’s first woman in space, along with Tam O’Shaughnessy, Karen Flammer, Terry McEntee, and Alann Lopes, to inspire young people in science, technology, engineering ...
Jun 4, 2024 · Held annually in May to mark astronaut and former UC San Diego professor Sally Ride’s birthday month, the Women in Leadership event honors Ride’s passion for the future and women’s role in it.
Jun 7, 2024 · By Mike Fleming Jr. June 7, 2024 11:31am. EXCLUSIVE: Kristen Stewart will make her TV series starring debut in The Challenger, a limited series in which she’ll play Sally Ride, the astronaut and ...
