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On June 18, 1983, NASA astronaut Sally Ride became America's first woman in space after she and four colleagues blasted off on the space shuttle Challenger for the STS-7 mission. The astronauts spent ...

A set of memorabilia chronicling Sally Ride's pioneering path to space just fetched a pretty penny at auction. In June 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to reach the final frontier, on ...

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NASA astronaut Sally Ride (1951 - 2012) in the interior of the Challenger space shuttle during the STS-41-G mission, October 1984. In 1983 she became the first American woman in space on the STS-7 ...