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SALLY RIDE MEMORABILIA COLLECTION SELLS FOR OVER £100,000
How It Works UK
|Issue 206
A set of memorabilia chronicling Sally Ride’s pioneering path to space just fetched a pretty penny at auction.
In June 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to reach the final frontier, on the STS-7 mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger. She rode Challenger to space again in October 1984, on the STS-41-G mission.
This story is from the Issue 206 edition of How It Works UK.
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