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Birth Name: Sally Kristen Ride
Born: 26 May 1951 Died: 23 July 2012
Country of origin: 
United States
Height: 5' 5"
Relationship Status: In a relationship
Partner: Tam O'Shaughnessy
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Sally Ride was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983. Ride was the third woman in space overall, after USSR cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982). Ride remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32. After flying twice on the Orbiter Challenger, she left NASA in 1987. Ride worked for two years at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, then at the University of California, San Diego as a professor of physics, primaril
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1. The Dream Is Alive (1985)
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3. Tiny Shoulders, Rethinking Barbie (2018)
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1. Sesame Street (1969)
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2. Touched by an Angel (1994)
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3. Today (1952)
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1. To Space and Back (1986)
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