Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

First American woman in space?

  1. Kathryn C. Thornton

  2. Ellen Ochoa

  3. Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan

  4. Sally Ride
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Explanation

Sally Ride became the first American woman in space on June 18, 1983, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-7. She was also the third woman in space overall, after Soviet cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya. Ride was a physicist and astronaut who later founded NASA's Office of Exploration.

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