SALLY RIDE MEMORABILIA COLLECTION SELLS FOR OVER £100,000

A set of memorabilia chronicling Sally Ride’s pioneering path to space just fetched a pretty penny at auction.

- WORDS MIKE WALL

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.