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Sally Ride's Astronaut Class Completely Changed NASA's ... - VICE

But there's more to her story. Her selection and appointment to the crew of STS-7 was part of a larger shift within NASA that not only saw women ...

Sally Ride (1951-2012) - NASA Science

The soft-spoken California physicist broke the gender barrier on June 18, 1983, when she became the first American woman in space. Sally Ride died on July 23, ...

Astronaut diversity changed in a single NASA class in 'The New ...

That class included the first female astronauts, among them Sally Ride, who in 1983 became the first American woman in space. Also included were ...

Sally Ride Remembered as an Inspiration to Others - NASA

She and five other women were chosen out of 8,000 applicants. The class dubbed themselves the “Thirty-Five New Guys.” First American Woman in Space. On June ...

Sally Ride's legacy lives on forty years later in NASA's Artemis

Sally Ride shattered the glass ceiling on June 18, 1983, in dramatic fashion aboard NASA's space shuttle Challenger to become the first American woman in space.

Biography: Sally Ride - National Women's History Museum

Realizing that technological and scientific skills were as important to the future of the Space Program as good pilots, NASA began a search for young scientists ...

About Dr. Sally Ride

She guided astronauts on missions STS-2 (1981) and STS-3 (1982). Then on April 19, 1982, NASA's flight crew director summoned Sally into his office and told her ...

Sally Ride - Wikipedia

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 ...

Who was Sally Ride? How the NASA astronaut became the first ...

On 18 June 1983, NASA astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly into space, onboard Space Shuttle mission STS-7.

Astronaut Sally Ride and the Burden of Being The First

NASA had to make some adjustments to accommodate the women in Ride's astronaut class and later as it prepared to send her to space. It added a ...

Sally K. Ride, Ph.D. | Academy of Achievement

This changed in 1977 when NASA set out to recruit more scientists, including women, for the new Space Shuttle program. At 27, Ride was ...

How NASA's first six women astronauts changed space - The Verge

Throughout the early 1980s, each of the six women — Sally Ride, Judy Resnick, Kathy Sullivan, Anna Fisher, Rhea Seddon, and Shannon Lucid — ...

Sally Ride's Legacy: Encouraging Young Women to Embrace STEM ...

On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space when the space shuttle Challenger launched on mission STS-7.

40th Anniversary of Sally Ride's Historic Spaceflight

All that changed on June 18, 1983, when Ride launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard shuttle Challenger. Her flight captured the nation's ...

How Sally Ride blazed a trail for women in space

Ride was completing her doctorate at Stanford when she saw the newspaper ad that would change her life—and the history of space flight. NASA was ...

How Sally Ride shattered the ultimate glass ceiling

Out of 8,000 applicants, she was one of the few to make NASA's 1978 Astronaut Class. Known as “the 35 New Guys,” this historic group included ...

Astronaut Sally Ride brought women and the LGBTQ+ community to ...

Sally Ride, who spent nearly a week in orbit on the space shuttle starting June 18, 1983, later said in a NASA interview she faced "a flurry of ...

40 years ago, Sally Ride became the first American woman in space

Mission specialist Sally Ride and four other NASA crew members lifted off on a six-day mission that would orbit Earth and deploy communications ...

Dr. Sally Ride: Taking Space - A World of Women in STEM

Sally was one of six women chosen for the NASA class of 1978, out of thirty-five total astronaut candidates. The “Thirty-Five New Guys”, as they ...

Ride, Sally Ride: 35 Years Since America's First Woman in Space

Thirty-five years ago, this week, America launched its first woman into space. Physicist Dr. Sally Ride rocketed into orbit aboard shuttle ...