Actor · Executive Producer
Born May 26, 1951 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Active 2008–2012 · Awards: NASA Space Flight Medal, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Theodore Roosevelt Award, Harmon Trophy, Presidential Medal of Freedom, National Women's Hall of Fame, Library of Congress Living Legend, Texas Women's Hall of Fame
Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts…