Thirty-five years ago today the first American female in space, Sally Ride, returned to Earth with the Space Shuttle Challenger crew. | PennLive.com

On June 18, 1983, NASA astronaut Sally Ride became America's first woman in space after she and four colleagues blasted off on the space shuttle Challenger for the STS-7 mission. Discover more space history 👉 https://trib.al/3TikniP The astronauts spent 6 days in space and deployed two communications satellites for Indonesia and Canada. Ride became the first woman to operate Canadarm, the shuttle's robotic arm. She used it to deploy a Shuttle Pallet Satellite that was loaded with science experi