The legacy of Sally Ride

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: May 28, 1987| Author: editorials | Copyright information

The accomplishments of Sally K. Ride, the first U.S. woman to fly into space, should not go unnoticed as she leaves the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to become a scientist with an arms-control think tank at Stanford University.

Dr. Ride, a physicist, was one of six women in 1978 selected for the astronaut corps. In 1983, her historic assignment as a mission specialist on the seventh space shuttle flight firmly established an equal role for women in the space program...

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