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The article details how NASA's Space Shuttle program helped break gender barriers by including women astronauts like Sally Ride, highlighting the challenges they faced, such as sexist equipment and stereotypes, and celebrating their achievements in space exploration and diversity advancements.
The documentary 'Sally' explores the life of Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, highlighting her achievements and her private life with her partner Tam O’Shaughnessy, revealing the reasons she kept her sexuality private due to societal pressures and fears of career repercussions.
June 18 marks the 40th anniversary of Sally Ride becoming the first American woman to travel into outer space. Ride's six-day mission on the space shuttle Challenger in 1983 shattered the glass ceiling for women in the US space program. Ride was also posthumously the first acknowledged gay person to become an astronaut. Since then, NASA has made strides in diversity, but an audit found a decade-long strategy has not made a meaningful impact on its diversity statistics across the agency’s workforce and leadership.
On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman in space as a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Challenger. Ride was also the third woman overall to embark on a spaceflight. After retiring from NASA, she became a college professor and founded Sally Ride Science, an organization dedicated to encouraging girls to enter STEM fields. Ride passed away in 2012 at the age of 61 due to pancreatic cancer.