National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) [Portrait of Sally Ride]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09797.01 Author/Creator: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Photograph signed Date: 1984 Pagination: 2 p. ; 25.3 x 20.4 cm. Order a Copy
One signed photograph of astronaut Sally Ride dated 1984. The photograph is an official portrait issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The photo has been signed on the left hand side. Features Sally Ride in front of an American flag, and model of a Challenger space shuttle. Her uniform features a Challenger 7, and a NASA patch. On the reverse side of the photograph is a copyright notice from NASA.
Sally Ride became the first American woman in space as a crew member on the space shuttle Challenger for STS-7. Ride remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32. After flying twice on the Orbiter Challenger, she left NASA in 1987.
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