Sally Ride Quotes


Different astronauts sleep in different ways.


Citations

Ride, Sally. "Astronaut Sally Ride Answers Student Questions." Scholastic, Scholastic Inc., 1998.

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Sally Ride
Sally Ride
  • Born: May 26, 1951
  • Died: July 23, 2012
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Physicist

Sally Kristen Ride was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman in space. She was the third woman in space overall, after USSR cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982). Ride remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32. After flying twice on the Orbiter Challenger, she left NASA in 1987.