page_title: Sally (name)
section_title: People
hierarchical_section_title: Sally (name) / People
caption_attribution_description: English: 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 and, later, a Master in Physics in 1975 and a Doctorate in Physics in 1978, also from Stanford. NASA selected Dr. Ride as an astronaut candidate in January 1978. She completed her training in August 1979, and began her astronaut career as a mission specialist on STS-7, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on June 18, 1983. The mission spent 147 hours in space before landing on a lakebed runway at Edwards Air Force Base, California on June 24, 1983. Dr. Ride also served as a mission specialist on STS-41-G, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on October 5, 1984 and landed 197 hours later at Kennedy Space Center, Florida on October 13, 1984. In June 1985, NASA assigned Dr. Ride to serve as mission specialist on STS-61-M. She discontinued mission training in January 1986 to serve as a member of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger accident, also known as the Rogers Commission. Upon completing the investigation she returned to NASA Headquarters as Special Assistant to the Administrator for Long Range and Strategic Planning, where she lead a team that wrote NASA Leadership and America's Future in Space:A Report to the Administrator in August 1987. Dr. Ride has also written a children's book, To Space and Back, describing her experiences in space, has received the Jefferson Award for Public Service, and has twice been awarded the National Spaceflight Medal. Her latest books include Voyager:An Adventure to the Edge of the Solar System and The Third Planet: Exploring the Earth from Space. She was also a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB), which investigated the February 1, 2003 loss of Space Shuttle Columbia. Dr. Ride is currently a physics professor and Director of the California Space Institute at the University of California, San Diego.
context_page_description: Sally is an English language feminine given name. The name originated as a pet name for Sarah, but has since become used independently. It is also a nickname for Salome, which is especially popular in Georgia. The name peaked in popularity in the U.S. in 1939, when it was ranked 52nd in popularity, but has since become an uncommon name.
context_section_description: Sally Armstrong (journalist) (born 1943), Canadian journalist, documentary filmmaker and human rights activist
  Sally Barrington, British oncologist and medical researcher
  Sally Anne Bowman (1987–2005), British murder victim
  Sally Boyden (cyclist) (born 1967), British track and road racing cyclist
  Sally Boyden (singer) (born 1966), Australian singer and actor
  Sally Bretton, British actress
  Sally Carr (born 1945), Scottish singer, lead singer of the 1970s pop group Middle of the Road (band)
  Sally Cockburn, Canadian-American mathematician
  Sally Davies (artist) (born 1956), Canadian painter and photographer, based in New York City
  Sally Davies (doctor) (born 1949), British doctor and government health advisor
  Sally Deweese (born 1824), American girl who became a mother at 10 years of age
  Sally Douglas (1941–2001), British actress
  Sally Ward Lawrence Hunt Armstrong Downs, also known as Sallie Ward, (1827–1896), American socialite
  Sally Dynevor (born 1963), British actress
  Sally Field (born 1946), American actress
  Sally Gunnell (born 1966), British hurdler
  Sally Hawkins (born 1976), British actress
  Sally Hemings (c. 1773–1835), slave owned by Thomas Jefferson, believed to have had six children by him
  Sally James (presenter) (born 1950), British TV presenter
  Sally-Anne Jones (1968–2017), British-born terrorist and UN-designated recruiter who is believed to have been killed
  Sally Jones, British journalist
  Sally Kellerman (born 1937), American actress and singer
  Sally Chepyego Kaptich (born 1985), Kenyan distance runner
  Sally Kirkland (born 1941), American actress
  Sally Kohn (born 1977), American political commentator
  Sally Kosgei, Kenyan politician
  Sally Liu (born 1996), Chinese singer and member of South Korean girl group Gugudan
  Sally Mann (born 1951), American photographer
  Sally Ann Matthews, (born 1970), British actress
  Sally Milgrim, (born 1898), American fashion designer
  Sally Morgan (artist) (born 1951), Australian Aboriginal author, scriptwriter and artist
  Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton (born 1959), British politician
  Sally Morgan (psychic), British celebrity psychic
  Sally Newmarch (born 1975), Australian Olympic rower
  Sally Jessy Raphael (born 1935), host of the American talk show Sally
  Sally Pearson (born 1986), Australian track and field athlete
  Sally Phillips (born 1969), British actress
  Sally Pressman (born 1981), American actress
  Sally Priesand (born 1946), America's first female rabbi ordained by a rabbinical seminary
  Sally Rand (1904–1979), American burlesque performer
  Sally Ride (1951–2012), American physicist and astronaut
  Sally Ronk (1912–1986), American economist
  Sally Rooney (born 1991), Irish author
  Sally Salminen (1906–1976), Finnish writer
  Sally Seymour (died 1824), American pastry chef and restaurateur
  Sally Smith (disambiguation)
  Sally Hoyt Spofford (1914–2002), American ornithologist
  Sally Struthers (born 1948), American actress and spokeswoman
  Sally Ann Triplett (born 1962), British actress and singer
  Sally Wister (1761–1804), American diarist
  Sally Yates (born 1960), American lawyer and former acting U.S. Attorney General
  Sally Amaki, American singer based in Japan
caption: Sally Ride was the first American female astronaut
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