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Sally RideDr. Sally Kristen Ride, on board the space shuttle Challenger during the STS-7 mission on June 18, 1983. She was born on May 26, 1951 and is now retired from NASA.

Her flight took place almost exactly twenty years after the Vostok 6 flight of Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, in June, 1963.


The first woman american in space is Sally Ride

On June 18, 1983, NASA astronaut Sally Ride broke through the ultimate glass ceiling, blasting into orbit on the shuttle Challenger as part of the crew of mission STS-7. Since her history-making flight, 39 female NASA astronauts have followed her into space, including shuttle commanders and an International Space Station commander.

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The first human was Sally Ride, although there was a female chimp launched in the sixties.
Sally Ride was the first woman that was sent to space. She went into space in 1983 aboard the Challenger space shuttle.
The first female astronaut was Valentina Tereshkova of the Soviet Union. Tereshkova became the first woman in space on June 16, 1963.
The First Woman in Space was...

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