Ride blazed a trail for women and queer people in space.
Ride always kept her personal life secret.On the morning of June 18, 1983, thousands of people flocked to the beaches in Florida just south of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to watch history being made. As the crew of the STS-7 mission lifted off from launch pad 39A, Dr. Sally K. Ride became the first American woman in space., itself challenged long-held stereotypes about who would make a good space traveler.
In fall 1968 Ride began her studies at Swarthmore College outside Philadelphia. She loved physics, though the classes were challenging, but ultimately left Swarthmore to explore the possibility of a professional tennis career. She returned to California and began training and competing across the West Coast.
The 35 members of Astronaut Group 8 included six women, all of whom held advanced degrees in science, engineering, and medicine. Despite their qualifications, Ride and her peers did not have any women role models in space travel. For the first 25 years of U.S. human spaceflight, women who aspired to space travel had no path to the stars.
Ride and the rest of Group 8 trained for years before traveling into space, developing skills and supporting other missions from the ground. Ride became an expert in the Remote Manipulator System , an important tool that enabled astronauts to deploy and retrieve satellites from the space shuttle’s cargo bay. NASA leadership assigned Ride to the critical role of “CapCom” for the second ever space shuttle mission.
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