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Portrait or photograph of Sally Ride: Sally Ride was the first American woman in space.

Virtual Memorial

Sally Ride

A Memory Realm virtual memorial place honoring Sally Ride, remembered for Space exploration, NASA, Women in STEM.

1951 - 2012Los Angeles, California, United States
Portrait or photograph of Sally Ride: Sally Ride
Sally Ride The original uploader was Hephaestos at English Wikipedia ., Cropped, resized; original from http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/STS41G/10061793.jpg http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/luceneweb/caption.jsp?photoId=S84-37256 ; uploaded to en.wikipedia ; description p

Why Sally Ride Is Remembered

Sally Ride is remembered for space exploration, nasa, women in stem. This public memorial page gives visitors a concise starting point for understanding why the figure remains part of cultural, civic, scientific, or literary memory.

The page is designed as an accessible introduction rather than an exhaustive biography, with source links and image credits kept visible for further reading.

A Virtual Memorial in Memory Realm

This Memory Realm memorial hall turns a map reference into a virtual place for discovery. Visitors can move from the public page to the map and then into a 3D memorial hall connected to Sally Ride.

The place is part of Memory Realm's virtual layer. It is not a physical marker and does not claim rights, control, access, endorsement, or affiliation connected to a real-world site.

Place Context

Los Angeles, California, United States is used as a broad spatial reference for this memorial because it is connected to Sally Ride's life, work, memory, or public legacy. The location is intentionally city-level or region-level so the page can provide orientation without implying a claim over a specific property or institution.

Historical Context

Sally Kristen Ride was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Southern California, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983, became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space. She was the youngest American astronaut to have flown in space, having done so at the age of 32.

Memory Realm presents this context for educational discovery and remembrance, with public source links and media attribution preserved alongside the page content.

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Portrait or photograph of Sally Ride: I got to interview astronaut and physics professor Dr. Sally Ride today. We talked about her new company <a>Sally Ri

I got to interview astronaut and physics professor Dr. Sally Ride today. We talked about her new company <a>Sally Ride Science</a>. I'll have it posted on Conference Co

Tim Wilson from Blaine, MN, USA, Brush with fame: Dr. Sally Ride, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Portrait or photograph of Sally Ride: Sally Ride was the first American woman in space. Born on May 26, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, she received a Bachelor

Sally Ride was the first American woman in space. Born on May 26, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, she received a Bachelor in Physics and English in 1973 from Stanford University a

NASA, Description page ( direct image link ), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Portrait or photograph of Sally Ride: Dr. Sally Ride : Former astronaut; first American woman in space; CEO of Sally Ride Science ; and Professor Emerita, Unive

Dr. Sally Ride : Former astronaut; first American woman in space; CEO of Sally Ride Science ; and Professor Emerita, University of California, San Diego

NASA, 354250main_thumbnail_bioRide250x300.jpg via Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee ; original camera file appears to have been named LW4N1677.CR2, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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