Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space

By Lynn Sherr

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Science & Math

Former ABC News correspondent Lynn Sherr, who covered NASA and became Sally Ride's friend, wrote this 2014 authorized biography of the physicist who was the first American woman in space. The book covers Ride's selection among the first women astronauts, her two space flights and her investigations of the Challenger and Columbia disasters. It follows her post-NASA career, including Sally Ride Science, and the private life she guarded, including her 27-year relationship with Tam O'Shaughnessy and her cancer.

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