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Lunar Impact Site Named After Sally Ride. Dec. 18, 2012: NASA has named the site where twin gravity probes hit the Moon yesterday in honor of the late astronaut, Sally K. Ride, who was America's first woman in space and a member of the probes' mission team.
Lynn Sherr's Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space recalls one notable incident: when male NASA engineers asked Ride how many tampons she'd need for her one-week journey, they suggested 100. Ride gracefully replied that she wouldn't need quite that many. We just want to be safe, the engineers replied.