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Happy Pride Month! Remembering Sally Ride's historic legacy | Space photo of the day for June 3, 2026


In June 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly to space. Nearly three decades later, we learned that she had also been an LGBTQ trailblazer.

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