Public unveiling is scheduled for June 17 in Garden City, New York.
A clay mockup of"The First American Woman in Space" statue that will honor the late Sally Ride once unveiled on June 17, 2022 outside of the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, New York.one-piece flight suit and flight jacket. Shown stepping forward, Ride's right arm is extended outward as she holds up a model of the space shuttle orbiter to the sky.
After leaving NASA, Ride served as a physics professor and, with her life partner Tam O'Shaughnessy, co-founded Sally Ride Science to motivate young women to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics . Ride's closest connection, at least geographically, to the Cradle of Aviation was her one year as the founding president of Space.com, leading the New York City-based company and its efforts to develop educational programming for students.
The statue is a gift to the Cradle of Aviation from the Matson Family Foundation, Peter Diamandis, on behalf of the XPRIZE Foundation, and Maria Shriver. It was created by Colorado-based sculptors and brothers George and Mark Lundeen, working with fellow artist Joey Bainer. The Cradle of Aviation Museum is offering to engrave bricks to line its new Sally Ride Circle that will surround the monument to the first American woman in space.
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