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The NASA astronaut Sally drives during one of its two Space Shuttle missions. | Credit: NASA
A number of memorabilia that Sally Ride’s pioneering path to space has just achieved a pretty penny at the auction.
In June 1983, Sally Ride Was the first American woman to reach the last border on the STS 7 mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
In October 1984 she rode back into space on the STS 41 G mission. This flight was also groundbreaking; It was the first space flight that ever contained two female occupation members. (The other woman in the seven-person crew was the NASA astronaut Kathryn Sullivan.)
Some souvenirs of these flights and the path of this trip – a physicist with a doctorate from Stanford University – rose to the auction last Thursday (June 26) in Los Angeles. And there was a lot of interest.
According to Nate D. Sanders, the memorabilia – a number of more than 50 parts called Sally Ride Estate Collection – sold for a total of $ 145,666.
The 1978 letter of acceptance, in which the journey as a member of the astronaut Group 8 of NASA – the first in the history of the agency, which was included in women, welcomed 5.046 US dollars. Her official Astronaut badge sold for $ 4,915, and the diary that she kept during the STS 41 G mission received $ 9,694.
The Apollo 11 Robbins Medal was even more lucrative, which flew back to the moon in 1969 during the legendary first crewed moon landing mission. It was sold for $ 17,690. Another Robbins Medal, which flew on the first Space Shuttle mission in April 1981, sold $ 13,401.
You can read the collection and the price that each piece has brought with you via Nate D. Sanders auction.
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Ride, who died in the age of 61 in the age of 61, was a pioneer in several ways: she is also the first known LGBTQ+ person who reached the last border.
Ride did not reveal her sexual orientation during her space career. The revelation took place via an obituary that was published shortly after her death by Sally Ride Science, the Stem -Outreach company that she had launched in 2001 with Tam O’Shaughnessy. This obituary identified O’Shaughnessy as Ride’s Life partner and said they had been together for 27 years.
