How long did Sally Ride stay in space?

Sally Ride was an American astronaut and physicist. During her career at NASA, Sally Ride stayed in space for 14d 7h 46m.

Her first mission was on the Space Shuttle Challenger during the STS-7 mission in June 1983. Two communications satellites and the first Shuttle pallet satellite (SPAS-1) were launched as part of the mission.

Ride was in charge of the robotic arm that deployed and retrieved SPAS-1. Her second space trip was the STS-41-G mission aboard Challenger in 1984. He left NASA in 1987.

After leaving NASA in 1987, Ride joined the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) as a physics professor and the director of the California Space Institute (Cal Space), which became part of the university’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1989

She left UCSD in 2007 to become a professor emeritus. She was the only person to serve on the panels that investigated the Challenger and Columbia disasters.

Ride managed two public-outreach programmes for NASA, the ISS EarthKAM and GRAIL MoonKAM initiatives, in collaboration with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and UCSD, from the mid-1990s until her death.