Sally Ride: Women Astronauts Who Pioneered

Ride, first American woman in space, dead at 61.

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Sally Ride and Fellow Women Astronauts

Female Astronauts

NASA astronaut Sally K. Ride, the first American woman in space, poses in Houston before her first flight. Ride and other four NASA astronauts flew the shuttle Challenger in June 1983. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

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