Sally Ride Will Assist NASA Director
Sally K. Ride, the first American woman in space, will be appointed special assistant to the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, an agency spokesman said Saturday.
NASA spokesman David Garrett said he expects that Ride’s appointment to assist agency Administrator James C. Fletcher will be announced this week.
Some of her work will involve long-range planning, he said.
Ride, who made her first trip into space in June, 1983, was a member of the presidential commission that investigated the shuttle Challenger explosion.
One of the commission’s recommendations was that astronauts be appointed to management positions at NASA.
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