Released on June 27, 2023
June is LGBTQ+ Pride Month, and to commemorate today we are highlighting an LGBTQ+ pioneer, Sally Flight!
Sally Flight is most popular for being the very first the very first woman-identifying NASA Astronaut and the very first American female in area (and the 3rd female in area internationally). She is likewise the very first recognized LGBTQ+ astronaut. Sally was born upon Might 26th, 1951, in Los Angeles, California, and participated in 3 colleges in her undergraduate profession. Sally started her research studies at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania prior to moving to The University of California, Los Angeles to pursue a profession as an expert tennis gamer. While at UCLA she studied Shakespeare and quantum mechanics, and she was the only female learning physics. She ultimately chose that expert tennis wasn’t for her and made a last transfer to Stanford University, where she finished in 1973 with a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. Sally continued her research studies at Stanford, making a Master of Science in Physics in 1975 and her PhD in 1978.
In 1977, Sally found a news post about NASA hiring females for astronaut training and used. She made it through to the Finalist classification and finished her training in 1979, making her eligible for spaceflight. In 1982, Sally was picked to be a crewmember of NASA’s seventh Area Shuttle bus objective, objective STS-7, after functioning as a ground communicator for objectives STS-2 and STS-3. In 1983, the Area Shuttle bus she dealt with, Opposition, took off, making her the very first American female in area. She was likewise the youngest NASA astronaut in area. She went on to ride in numerous other area objectives, investing an overall of 343 hours in area, and left NASA in 1987.
After leaving NASA, Sally carried out research study for universities such as Stanford and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), going on to end up being a Teacher of Physics at UCSD. Sally likewise ended up being the Director of the California Area Institute. In 2001, she established Sally Flight Science, a company that still exists today that works to increase interest and literacy in STEM for women. After her death in 2012, her long time partner Tam O’Shaughnessy stepped forward about their 27-year long relationship, making Sally the very first recognized LGBTQ+ astronaut.
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Image thanks to NASA– Sally Flight Image Gallery
