Sally Kristen Ride, who died in 2012, was born in 1951. She was an astronaut and physicist from the United States. After cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman and the third woman in space in 1983. At 32, she made history as the youngest American astronaut to journey to space. Ride left NASA in 1987 after flying two flights on the Space Shuttle Challenger. Take this quiz to see how knowledgeable you are about Sally Ride.
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