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
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
Women in space
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Women have flown and worked in outer space from the beginning of human spaceflight. Overall women have been significantly less often chosen to go to space than men, and in June 2020, constituted only
Sally Ride
…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 was the youngest American astronaut to have flown in space, having done so at the age of 32. Ride was a graduate of Stanford University, where she…
A record four women simultaneously in space aboard the International Space Station in 2010 (Expedition 23 and STS-131). Clockwise from lower left: Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Naoko Yamazaki, and Stephanie Wilson
Jerrie Cobb with a Mercury capsule (c. early 1960s)
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space, in 1963 aboard Vostok 6
Mae Jemison, the first woman of color in space, aboard STS-47 in 1992