Credit: NASA / THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES / AFP US astronaut Sally Ride in 1983
June 18, 1983, Sally Ride becomes the third woman and the first American, to travel in space . At 32, she participated in the second mission of the shuttle Challenger, who spent six days around the Earth. She will participate in a second mission in October 1984. It does not take part in a third trip canceled because of the Challenger explosion in January 1986.
Sally Ride leaving NASA in 1987 so that it is the special assistant to the director of the agency for long-term strategic planning. She then worked in teaching and research before founding the Sally Ride Science, a company that tries to make the study of science more interesting in 2001. She died July 23, 2012 in San Diego (California ) with pancreatic cancer. His name is inscribed at the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Born May 26, 1951 in Los Angeles (California), Sally Ride would have been 64 today.
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