Sally Ride1978
Sally Ride is one of 8,000 people to answer an advertisement in a newspaper seeking applicants for the space program, as a result, she joins NASA in 1978
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Sally Ride is one of 8,000 people to answer an advertisement in a newspaper seeking applicants for the space program, as a result, she joins NASA in 1978
Becomes the first American woman in space as a crewmember on Space Shuttle Challenger for STS-7
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