Name: Ride, Sally Country: USA M/F: F Number of Flights: 2

Space Flights Launch Date - Shuttle Landing Date - Shuttle
1. STS-7 June 18, 1983 - Challenger June 24, 1983 - Challenger
2. STS-41G October 5, 1984 - Challenger October 13, 1984 - Challenger

Space Flights Descriptions
1. STS-7 Deployed Anik C-2 for TELESAT Canada and Palapa B-1 for Indonesia
Deployed and retrieved the Shuttle Pallet Satellite 1 (SPAS-1) - Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications Payload 2 (OSTA-2) containing material science experiments - First American woman in space
2. STS-41G Deployed Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS)
Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications Payload 3 (OSTA-3) containing remote sensing experiments - First space flight to include two women
STS-61M
(Cancelled)
Planned Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-C) deployment shuttle mission
Cancelled after the Challenger disaster

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Updated - June 5, 2006