Sally Ride Quotes
The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun that I'll ever have in my life.
Citations
Ride, Sally. Post-flight Press Conference. 25 June 1983. Quoted in Sherr, Lynn. Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space. Simon & Schuster, 2014, p. 165.
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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.