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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.
Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space. *Correction, June 1, 2014: This piece originally misstated the year that Sally Ride's father died. We also corrected the photo caption after learning that the photo agency was wrong about when it was taken.