The same team made another Ride statue in 2022.
Then, after the shuttlebroke up during its reentry to Earth's atmosphere, killing seven crewmembers on Feb. 1, 2003 — 20 years ago next week — Ride also served on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board looking for root causes of the incident.
A statue of Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly into space, was unveiled outside the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Long Island, New York on June 17, 2022. Historically, there has been a dearth of statues representing individuals other than men. In 2011, for example, theonly 394 statues of women across the United States, compared to 4,799 male statues listed in the Smithsonian Institution's American Art Museum's Art Inventories Catalog at the time.
Other genders were not discussed in the report, and to be sure, statuary gaps also exist in representing different ethnicities, sexual orientations and other dimensions of humanity. Barber said that, as such, he is interested in commissioning other monuments of female astronauts. He has been discussing some ideas with potential individuals or, if they are deceased, their families and other connections.one of its Cygnus cargo spacecraft"SS Sally Ride" after the famed astronaut. The U.S.
, a LEGO minifigure and through the naming of a lunar site where two NASA spacecraft slammed into the surface in 2012, according to Space.com partner
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