Sally Ride
(May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012

•  astronaut and physicist
• 1978 selected to be an astronaut in NASA Astronaut Group 8
  one of 35 selected out of 8000 applications
  
• June 18, 1983 became 1st American woman in space
  crew member on Space Shuttle Challenger, STS-7
• 1984 – 2nd space flight STS-41-G
• She has spent 343+ hours in space
• only person to serve on both of the panels investigating Shuttle accidents