Sally Ride on space shuttle Challenger. NASA astronaut and first US woman in space, Sally Ride (1951-2012) talking with ground controllers in Houston,

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Sally Ride on space shuttle Challenger. NASA astronaut and first US woman in space, Sally Ride (1951-2012) talking with ground controllers in Houston, Texas, USA, from the flight deck of the space shuttle Challenger. This is mission STS-7, which launched on the 18th June 1933. The mission deployed two communication satellites and carried a number of experiments.

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