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A Manual From Sally Ride

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  • Set of two pages of a space manual owned by Sally Ride. The pages feature a drawing of the Space Shuttle Discovery with an arm-shaped device on board, with the other page featuring checklist items and handwritten notes from Sally Ride.
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    The inside of one of Sally Ride's manuals. Here are pages FS 12-2 and FS 12-3 of her PDRS Operations Checklist for Space Shuttle Mission STS-7. In it you can see a drawing of Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-99) with the Canadarm and notes from Ride. 

  • Set of two pages of a space manual owned by Sally Ride. The pages feature a drawing of the Space Shuttle Discovery with an arm-shaped device on board, with the other page featuring checklist items and handwritten notes from Sally Ride.

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National Air and Space Museum 650 Jefferson Drive SW
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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway
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