After flying twice on the Orbiter Challenger, she left NASA in 1987. Ride worked for two years at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, then at the University of California, San Diego as a professor of physics, primarily researching nonlinear...
Former Vice President Kamala Harris — Trump’s 2024 challenger — and her husband, Doug Emhoff, were also in attendance. Some of the other VIPs included Susie Wiles, Trump’s White House chief of staff, and Miriam Adelson, one of his biggest donors. And ...
Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher in space, died in the Challenger explosion. Read More Astronaut Compensation and Benefits Workers move a simulated Orion crew module into a hangar at NASA Langley. The new module is intended as part of the Constellation program to land astronauts back on ...