Here's how Sally Ride knew she was special: The day she was assigned to her first space flight, she was summoned to meet with Chris Kraft. Ride flew a second time, in 1984, also aboard Challenger. By the mid 1970s that had changed just enough that Ride could apply to she shuttle program - one of 8,000 astronaut candidates given consideration, By 1978, she was named part of an incoming astronaut class that included five other women and 29 men. Ride - not the first person in space, not even the first woman in space - will never be in the pantheon of Glenn or Armstrong or Gagarin or Leonov or Lovell or Shepard.
Source: TIME
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