What did sally ride do in space?
Just Google “Sally Ride”: On June 18, 1983, she became the first American woman in space as a crew member on Space Shuttle Challenger for STS-7. On STS-7, the five-person crew deployed two communications satellites, conducted pharmaceutical experiments, and was the first to use the robot arm in space and the first to use the arm to retrieve a satellite. Her second space flight was in 1984, also on board the Challenger. She has cumulatively spent more than 343 hours in space. Ride had completed eight months of training for her third flight when the Space Shuttle Challenger accident occurred.[2] She was named to the Presidential Commission investigating the accident, and headed its subcommittee on Operations.[2] After the investigation, Ride was assigned to NASA headquarters in Washington, DC. There she led NASA’s first strategic planning effort, authoring a report entitled “Leadership and America’s Future in Space”, and founded NASA’s Office of Exploration.[1] Ride married fellow NASA a
