Ride’s handwritten notes can be seen in the interior pages of her ascent checklist for space shuttle mission STS-7. It was on that mission, in 1983, that she became the first American woman in space.
Created:
February 08, 2016
Photographer:
Dane Penland
ID#:
NASM 2016-00312
Source:
Copyright, all rights reserved. Courtesy of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum
