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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.
Ride, Sally Ride: A Photobiography of America's Pioneering Woman in Space, a 2015 biography of astronaut Sally Ride by Tam O'Shaughnessy Ride Sally Ride (Sex Rules) , a 2020 novel by Douglas Wilson (theologian)
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").
Sally Ride (1951–2012), the first American woman in space, was an astronaut and physicist. Sally Ride may also refer to: Sally Ride Science, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California, USA; Sally Ride Elementary School, Orange County Public Schools, Orange County, Florida, USA
The Ride Report is the informal name of the report titled NASA Leadership and America's Future in Space: A Report to the Administrator. [1] In 1986, a task force under the leadership of Sally Ride was asked to formulate a new strategy for NASA. The report was issued in 1987. The Ride Report proposed four main initiatives for study and evaluation.
Sally Ride EarthKAM (Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students) is a NASA educational outreach program started in 1996. The program was initiated by JoBea Way Holt , an Earth scientist from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory , and was initially named KidSat.
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.
RV Sally Ride (AGOR-28) is a Neil Armstrong-class research vessel owned by the United States Navy and operated by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. [1] She was launched in 2014 and put into service in 2016. The ship was named for Sally Ride, the first US woman in space.