this is how many tampons Sally Ride was
offered on her first space mission which
lasted about six days like a lot of stem
Fields NASA was male dominated and Sally
Ride was their first female astronaut
after her death we learned something
very private Tam had been her partner
for 27 years I’ve always admired Sally
Ride and as part of a project I staged a
fictional desk of hers for Stanford
Banner one of her Mission patches a
photo with Billie Jean King and Gloria
Steinem and of course a cup of coffee I
also got to photograph some of her
artifacts for a Nat geoshu her tennis
racket is one of my favorites because it
was how she met Tam when they were
pre-teens and her flight jacket from her
first space mission was incredible to
see in person when Sally did make it to
space it changed her view of the world
it created an even deeper desire to
protect it and while Sally was not out
during her lifetime her Legacy has won
the lgbtq plus Community can be proud of
she was worried that by coming out she
would lose her funding and instead
decided to focus on women’s
representation in stem studies Today
show how the first mission to Mars
should be with all female astronauts and
so it’s good to remember that