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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.
This will be so not only because women do not excel at space science or the physical demands of space travel as men do but also because, as Rideâs obituary proved, she did not lead a full life. Ride was in a lesbian relationship with a childhood friend for 27 years.