[47], In April 2013, the U.S. Navy announced that a research ship would be named in honor of Ride. SPAS-1 was successfully deployed, underwent experiments, then recollected and brought back to Earth. [66], In the film Valley Girl (2020), Ride is referred to not only as the first woman astronaut, but also as a valley girl, since she was from Encino. 1984 - August - Anna Fisher becomes the first person to retrieve a malfunctioning satellite, using the orbiter remote manipulator arm. [62] The song was later released as part of Hadfield's album Space Sessions: Songs from a Tin Can under the name Ride That Lightning. Instead, Dr. Sally Ride will forever be known as the first American woman in space. Ride was a Stanford University alum (she received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics, a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, as well as a Master of Science and doctorate in physics). Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space, https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-american-woman-in-space. [16], In 1987, Ride left her position in Washington, D.C., to work at the Stanford University Center for International Security and Arms Control. By Soo Youn In 1983, astronaut and astrophysicist Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger. Ride was one of 8,000 people to answer an ad in the Stanford student newspaper seeking applicants for NASA. [15], Ride was named to the Rogers Commission (the presidential commission investigating the Challenger disaster) and headed its subcommittee on operations. Ride was assigned to the Rogers Commission, a presidential commission charged with investigating the disaster. [49], On May 20, 2013, a "National Tribute to Sally Ride" was held at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. and on that same day, President Barack Obama announced that Ride would receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. America’s first woman in space worked to make STEM education more equitable and inclusive, with a special emphasis on encouraging participation by … [32] They wrote six acclaimed children's science books together. Courtesy NASA. [34][35] and the first lesbian in outer space.[36][3]. In 1989, she became a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego, and director of the California Space Institute. First US Woman in Space. Sally Ride was the first American astronaut to go into orbit on June 18, 1983, as a crew member on the space shuttle Challenger for STS-7. 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"I hope to inspire everyone—especially young people, women, and young girls all over the world,” she told Space.com in an interview. On this date in 1983, Dr. Sally Ride, physicist and pilot, became the first American woman in space when she began a six day mission aboard the space shuttle 'Challenger'. Embarrassed over the late entry of Italy in the war against the Allies, and its rather tepid performance since, ...read more, On June 18, 1960, Arnold Palmer shoots a 65 to win the U.S. Open at Cherry Hills Country Club in Denver, Colorado. [48] This was done in 2014 with the christening of the oceanographic research vessel RV Sally Ride (AGOR-28). [57], For their first match of March 2019, the women of the United States women's national soccer team each wore a jersey with the name of a woman they were honoring on the back; Tierna Davidson chose the name of Sally Ride. On December 17, 2012, the two GRAIL probes, Ebb and Flow, were directed to complete their mission by crashing on an unnamed lunar mountain near the crater Goldschmidt. She was the third woman in space overall, after USSR cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982). [24][25], Ride endorsed Barack Obama for U.S. President in 2008. NASA announced Ride would be part of the STS-7 crew on April 30, 1982, serving as mission specialist and joining Commander Robert L. Crippen, mission specialist John M. Fabian, physician-astronaut Norman E. Thagard and pilot Frederick H. Hauck on the historic flight.
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