Object Details
- Owner
- Sally K. Ride
- Summary
- This STS-5 mission patch was owned by Dr. Sally K. Ride. STS-5 launched in November 1982 as the first "operational" shuttle mission and the first to deploy communication satellites into orbit. The mission patch design shows the orbiter's deployment of satellites, illustrated against a five-pointed star to signify the mission number. Ride's first shuttle flight launched less than a year after STS-5.
- Sally Ride became the first American woman in space when she flew aboard STS-7 in 1983. Her second and last space mission was STS-41G in 1984. A physicist with a Ph.D., she joined the astronaut corps in 1978 as a part of the first class of astronauts recruited specifically for the Space Shuttle Program. Viewed as a leader in the NASA community, she served on the Rogers Commission after the Challenger disaster in 1986 as well as the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) in 2003. She also led the task force that produced a visionary strategic planning report in 1987 titled, “NASA Leadership and America’s Future in Space,” but known popularly as the Ride Report.
- After she retired from NASA in 1987, Dr. Ride taught first at Stanford and later at the University of California, San Diego. Until her death in 2012, she was president and CEO of Sally Ride Science, a company that promoted science education.
- Dr. Ride’s partner, Dr. Tam O’Shaughnessy, donated the patch to the Museum in 2013.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Tam O'Shaughnessy
- Inventory Number
- A20140292000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MEMORABILIA-Events
- Materials
- Synthetic Fabric
- Embroidery Thread
- Probable Heat Seal Backing
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 0.3 × 10.5cm (1/8 × 4 1/8 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A20140292000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv947b5b80f-5926-4d08-b22b-ed3caa6078ff
