Sally Ride (1951-2012) was an astronaut, physicist, and engineer that worked for NASA. She is the youngest American astronaut to have traveled in space and only the third woman overall to go to space, as well as the first known LGBTQ astronaut.
Won the National Space Society's Von Braun Award
Won the Lindbergh Eagle Award
1988 - Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
2003 - Inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame
Won the NASA Space Flight Medal twice
1994 - Won the Samuel S Beard Award for Greatest Public Service by an Individual 35 years or younger
2007 - Inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio
2013 - Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama
Sally Ride talks about her memories as the first American woman to go into space and of her first shuttle flight, Challenger, in 1983.