Object Details
- Owner
- Sally K. Ride
- Summary
- This STS-2 lapel pin was owned by Dr. Sally K. Ride. STS-2, which launched in November 1981, was the second flight of the space shuttle. Ride served as Capcom for the mission, which was the first to use the Remote Manipulator System (RMS), a robotic arm used to lift satellites into orbit and retrieve them. Ride was chosen as Capcom at Mission Control in Houston in part because of her experience and skill in using the RMS, and she assisted crew members Joe H. Engle and Richard H. Truly in manuevering it.
- 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 pin to the Museum in 2013.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Tam O'Shaughnessy
- Inventory Number
- A20140312000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MEMORABILIA-Events
- Materials
- Copper Alloy
- Enamel
- Unknown Metal Plating
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 1.9 × 1.1cm (3/4 × 7/16 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_A20140312000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9cfa928e8-7221-4953-8472-8e2edce69c9b
