Pictured here, which of the following famous figures became the first American woman in space in 1981?

Sally Ride was an astronaut and scientist from the United States who joined NASA in 1978, and became the first American woman in space 5 years later. She was the third woman in space in the world, after Soviet cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya had traveled to the cosmos.

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