Sally Ride
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Sally Ride
b. May 26, 1951 — d. Jul 23, 2012
LIFE FORM
Gender
Occupation
Physicist
MISSIONS
2
TIME IN SPACE
14D:07H:46M
SPACEWALKS
-
SPACEWALK TIME
-
Sally Ride
128
Sally Ride
b. May 26, 1951 — d. Jul 23, 2012
LIFE FORM
Gender
Occupation
Physicist
MISSIONS
2
TIME IN SPACE
14D:07H:46M
SPACEWALKS
-
SPACEWALK TIME
-
WIKIPEDIA EXCERPT
Sally Kristen Ride was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983. Ride was the third woman in space overall, after USSR cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya. Ride remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32. After flying twice on the Orbiter Challenger, she left NASA in 1987.