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Sally Ride

Dr. Sally Ride, Mission Specialist, on the flight deck of the space shuttle Challenger (NASA Orbital Vehicle 099) during her first mission, STS-7, when she became the first American woman in space as well as the youngest astronaut to orbit--a record that she still holds. On this mission two communications satellites were deployed: ANIK C-2 for TELESAT Canada and PALAPA-B1 for Indonesia; both were attached to the Payload Assist Module-D (PAM-D) motors. Seven Get Away Special canisters in the cargo bay held a variety of experiments, including one studying affects of space on social behavior of an ant colony in zero gravity. Ten experiments were mounted on the Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS-01) and performed research in forming metal alloys in microgravity and the use of a remote sensing scanner. The orbiter's small control rockets were fired while SPAS-01 was held by the remote manipulator system to test the movement on an extended arm. Experiment 1: To investigate space sickness was carried out. Other payloads on this mission were: Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications-2 (OSTA-2); Continuous Flow Electrophoresis System (CFES); Monodisperse Latex Reactor (MLR) and one Shuttle Student Involvement (SSIP) experiment.

In 1986, Ride was the only public figure to openly support Roger Jolybois, a Morton-Thiokol engineer who detected a serious design flaw in the space shuttle's solid fuel boosters, and whose attempts to stop the cold-weather launch that resulted in the Challenger disaster were unsuccessful. He was then unfairly shunned by the industry for his criticism, though he had been right. Ride served on the Rogers Commission that investigated the Challenger failure, and later on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board that investigated NASA's other major in-flight shuttle failure.

This sketch was created for the Award Tree Science Friction Challenge from a photograph in GRIN (Great Images In NASA) under an attribution license. No endorsement by NASA is claimed or implied, nor is any claim made of copyright or other rights involving this image. I do claim immense admiration for NASA's manned space programs, the people who took part in them in general, and the late Dr. Ride in particular, not only for her achievements in the space program, but also for Sally Ride Science, an educational program in schools, as well as numerous books for children intended to inspire young women to enter careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. A physics professor who was an authority on, among many other things, the interaction of cosmic x-rays with the interstellar medium, her life itself was science fiction.

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