First woman to perform … Over six days, the crew’s complex tasks included launching commercial communications satellites for Indonesia and Canada and deploying and retrieving a satellite using the shuttle’s robotic arm. They divorced in 1987. [11][12], Prior to her first space flight, Ride was subject to media attention due to her gender. She spent a total of more than 343 hours in space. [13], Part of Ride's job was to operate the robotics arm to deploy and retrieve SPAS-1. She was the president and CEO of Sally Ride Science, a company she co-founded in 2001 that creates entertaining science programs and publications for upper elementary and middle school students, with a particular focus on girls. On this date in 1983, Dr. Sally Ride, physicist and pilot, became the first American woman in space when she began a six day mission aboard the space shuttle 'Challenger'. [57], For their first match of March 2019, the women of the United States women's national soccer team each wore a jersey with the name of a woman they were honoring on the back; Tierna Davidson chose the name of Sally Ride. On this day in 1983, the first American woman was launched into space. She became an on-the-ground capsule communicator (CAPCOM) for NASA’s STS-2 and STS-3 missions in 1981 and 1982, becoming an expert in controlling the shuttle’s robotic arm. Embarrassed over the late entry of Italy in the war against the Allies, and its rather tepid performance since, ...read more, On June 18, 1960, Arnold Palmer shoots a 65 to win the U.S. Open at Cherry Hills Country Club in Denver, Colorado. [42], On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Ride into the California Hall of Fame at the California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts. [28], Ride was extremely private about her personal life. [67], In 2021, Ride was featured in the second season of the Apple TV+ streaming series For All Mankind, where she was played by actress Ellen Wroe. ", "Lego's 'Women of NASA' toy set is finally on sale — and it's already Amazon's best-selling toy", "Barbie launches new 'Inspiring Women' dolls honoring Rosa Parks, Sally Ride", "Sally Ride collected news and commentary", "Ride urges emphasis on math, science studies", "Sally Ride: The first American woman in space", NASA Astronaut Group 8, "TFNG (Thirty-Five New Guys)", 1978, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sally_Ride&oldid=1021717983, 20th-century American non-fiction writers, 21st-century American non-fiction writers, Burials at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica, United States Astronaut Hall of Fame inductees, Wikipedia indefinitely semi-protected pages, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using Sister project links with default search, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 6 May 2021, at 08:47. [14], Ride had completed eight months of training for her third flight (STS-61-M, a TDRS deployment mission) when the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred. 1984 - October - Kathryn Sullivan, American astronaut, becomes first American woman to walk in space. 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. Her flight came just less than a year after Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to fly to space. Strong political opposition to these acts succeeded in undermining the Adams administration, ...read more, By the time they got to Woodstock, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Who and the Grateful Dead were established superstars—heroes to the roughly half a million worshipful fans who trekked up to Max Yasgur’s farm to see them in the summer of 1969. The first American woman to walk in space has become the first woman to reach the deepest known spot in the ocean. Ride remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32. Tags: natl - historical Posted By: Pauler Communications, Inc. Ride was one of 8,000 people to answer an ad in the Stanford student newspaper seeking applicants for NASA.