Sally K. Ride

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Sally K. Ride was an American physicist and astronaut who became the first American woman in space and later served on high-level investigative panels into NASA shuttle disasters.

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instanceOf LGBT person
NASA astronaut
astronaut
children's writer
human
physicist
science communicator
university professor
academicDegree Bachelor of Arts in English
Bachelor of Science in physics
Master of Science in physics
PhD in physics
awardReceived NASA Distinguished Service Medal
NASA Space Flight Medal
Presidential Medal of Freedom
causeOfDeath pancreatic cancer
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1951-05-26
dateOfDeath 2012-07-23
educatedAt Stanford University
employer NASA
Stanford University
University of California, San Diego
familyName Ride
fieldOfWork physics
space science
founded Sally Ride Science
fullName Sally Kristen Ride
givenName Sally
honorificEponym Sally Ride (Lunar Crater)
Sally Ride EarthKAM
USNS Sally Ride (T-AGOR-28)
memberOf Columbia Accident Investigation Board
NASA Astronaut Corps
Rogers Commission
movement STEM education advocacy
notableAchievement first American woman in space
youngest American astronaut in space at the time of her first flight
notableWork Exploring Our Solar System
Sally Ride Science (education company)
The Third Planet: Exploring the Earth from Space
To Space and Back
Voyager: An Adventure to the Edge of the Solar System
occupation astronaut
author
physicist
university teacher
partner Tam O'Shaughnessy
placeOfBirth Los Angeles, California, United States
placeOfDeath La Jolla, California, United States
positionHeld mission specialist
residence California, United States
sexOrGender female
sexualOrientation lesbian
spaceMission STS-41-G
STS-7
workedOn Challenger space shuttle missions


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