1983 – Sally Ride became the first American women in space aboard the Challenger Space Shuttle on this date. The flight (STS-7) lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 11:33 UTC and flew over 2.5 million miles lasting 6 days. During this historic flight, the crew launched three satellites and conducted dozens of other scientific and medical experiments. Dr. Ride would fly on one more Space Shuttle Mission (STS-41-G) before retiring from NASA and teaching physics at UC San Diego, and also worked for the Stanford University Center for the International Security and Arms Control. In 2001 Dr. Ride established Sally Ride Science to provide students and teachers with science, technology, engineering and math training and tools.