biography
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Ride, Sally (Kristen)
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| female
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| lived:
| (1951– )
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| biography:
| Astronaut and astrophysicist, born in Encino, California, USA. Selected for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) astronaut programme out of 1000 female candidates (1978), she became the first American woman in space on the space shuttle Challenger (1983). Known for solving difficult engineering problems and being a team player, she served on a presidential commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger accident of 1986, and as special assistant to the administrator, NASA (1987). |
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