Ride ita ce mace ta uku a sararin samaniya gabaɗaya, bayan USSR cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova (1963) da Svetlana Savitskaya (1982). Ride ya kasance mafi ƙanƙantar Ba'amurke ɗan sararin samaniya da ya yi tafiya zuwa sararin samaniya, ya yi hakan yana da shekaru 32. Bayan ya tashi sau biyu a kan Orbiter Challenger, sai ta bar NASA a 1987. Ta yi aiki na tsawon shekaru biyu a Cibiyar Tsaro ta Duniya da Kula da Makamai ta Jami'ar Stanford, sannan a Jami'ar California, San Diego a matsayin farfesa a fannin kimiyyar lissafi, da farko tana bincike kan abubuwan da ba na gani ba da kuma watsawar Thomson.
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