Then, after five years of training, she finally flew on Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983. She died under tragic circumstances when the space shuttle she was in, Columbia, exploded when it was making a reentry to earth after having completed its mission in the space on February 1, 2003. [64], In 2017, a "Women of NASA" LEGO set went on sale featuring (among other things) mini-figurines of Ride, Margaret Hamilton, Mae Jemison, and Nancy Grace Roman. [3], Ride attended Portola Junior High (now Portola Middle School) and then Birmingham High School before graduating from the private Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles on a scholarship. Since then many women from a range of countries have worked in space, though overall women are still significantly less often chosen to go to space than men and represent only 10% of all astronauts who have been to space. Following the Challenger investigation, Ride was assigned to NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., where she led NASA's first strategic planning effort, authored a report titled "NASA Leadership and America's Future in Space" and founded NASA's Office of Exploration. She was chosen to join the space program in 1978. Lovelace’s Woman in Space Program was a short-lived, privately-funded project testing women pilots for astronaut fitness in the early 1960s. Just a few months prior to Ride’s flight, the Soviet Union launched cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya into space on Aug. 19, 1982, on the Soyuz T-7 spacecraft. As with her first space flight, Ride used the shuttle’s robotic arm, this time to remove ice from the exterior of the ship and to readjust equipment. Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. The first American woman to walk in space has become the first woman to reach the deepest known spot in the ocean. [3], The elder child of Dale Burdell Ride and Carol Joyce Ride (née Anderson), Ride was born in Los Angeles. Of course, this group included Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. HISTORY reviews and updates its content regularly to ensure it is complete and accurate. When groundbreaking astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in 1983, she received plenty of congratulations. 1984 - October - Kathryn Sullivan, American astronaut, becomes first American woman to walk 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. [1][2] After flying twice on the Orbiter Challenger, she left NASA in 1987. 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. America’s first woman in space worked to make STEM education more equitable and inclusive, with a special emphasis on encouraging participation by … Mae C. Jemison is the first African American female astronaut. Ride worked for two years at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, then at the University of California, San Diego, primarily researching nonlinear optics and Thomson scattering. When Sally Ride Took Her First Space Flight, Sexism Was the Norm. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame and the Astronaut Hall of Fame and was awarded the NASA Space Flight Medal twice. [52], In 2014, Ride was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display in Chicago that celebrates LGBT history and people. Palmer, from Ligonier, Pennsylvania was the son of a golf pro at the Latrobe Country Club in nearby Latrobe. Ride died of pancreatic cancer on July 23, 2012. You can easily improve your search by specifying the number of letters in the answer. © 2021 A&E Television Networks, LLC. [60], In 1999, Ride appeared as herself on the Touched By An Angel episode "Godspeed". On board the shuttle is Dr. Sally K. Ride, who as a mission specialist, becomes the first American woman to travel into space. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! The first American woman in space was due to go on a third mission before the infamous Challenger disaster cut short her training in 1986. The first six women … "use strict";(function(){var insertion=document.getElementById("citation-access-date");var date=new Date().toLocaleDateString(undefined,{month:"long",day:"numeric",year:"numeric"});insertion.parentElement.replaceChild(document.createTextNode(date),insertion)})(); FACT CHECK: We strive for accuracy and fairness. NASA included women mission specialists in the next four astronaut candidate classes, and admitted female pilots starting in 1990. [3] In addition to being interested in science, she was a nationally ranked tennis player. [29], After Ride's death, her obituary revealed that her partner of 27 years was Tam O'Shaughnessy, a professor emerita of school psychology at San Diego State University and childhood friend, who met her when both were aspiring tennis players.

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