Kathryn D. Sullivan
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Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan is an American geologist, oceanographer, and former NASA astronaut and US Navy officer. She was a crew member on three Space Shuttle missions.
Sullivan in 2021
Using binoculars to view Earth during STS-41-G
Checking the SIR-B antenna during STS-41-G
With Sally Ride on STS-41-G
Sally Ride
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Sally Kristen Ride was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Southern California, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983, became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space. She
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…California, where her father worked in the aerospace industry for Marquardt Corporation. She was in the first grade at Havenhurst Elementary School, where Sally Ride was a classmate, but the school closed in 1958 to make way for Van Nuys Airport, and neither woman could recall meeting the other. During her school…
Ride in 1984
During training in May 1983
In a NASA T-38 Talon jet
Communicating with ground controllers from the flight deck during the STS-7 mission