{"id":5525,"date":"2026-06-18T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5525"},"modified":"2025-12-13T18:11:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:11:58","slug":"sally-ride-1983-thirty-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5525","title":{"rendered":"Sally Ride in 1983 Became the First American Woman and the Third Woman in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19509\" style=\"width: 137px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19509\" class=\"wp-image-19509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sally-Ride.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"127\" height=\"165\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sally Ride<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Sally Ride in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman in space<\/strong>. She and four other crew members were in the <em>Challenger<\/em> for six days. Since then, at least 73 women, including women from France, India, United Kingdom, South Korea, Italy, Japan, Canada, and China, have flown in space. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/audience\/forstudents\/k-4\/stories\/nasa-knows\/who-was-sally-ride-k4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sally Ride<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sally Ride in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman in space. She and four other crew members were in the Challenger for six days. Since then, at least 73 women, including women from France, India, United Kingdom, South Korea, Italy, Japan, Canada, and China, have flown in space. Children can learn <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5525' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5297,347,346,5639,345],"class_list":["post-5525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5297","tag-challenger","tag-first-american-woman-and-the-third-woman-in-space-in-1983","tag-june-18","tag-sally-ride","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5525"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29430,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions\/29430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}