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| And she was the youngest American astronaut, male or female, at age 32. |
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| Her field was astrophysics-the study of star and other bodies in space. |
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| Two smaller socket boosters were mounted onto the fuel tank. |
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| The planets, stars, and galaxies always fascinated Sally. |
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| It circled the Earth rather than flying off into space because of the Earth's gravity. |
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| Many space shuttles were launched in 1983 and 1984, Judith Resnick, a classmate of Sally's, had been in space in August, 1983. |
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| A photo of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Challenger, taken on the STS-7 mission. |
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| One day Sally saw an ad recruiting NASA astronauts. |
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| She had to learn how to control the launch and reentry of the shuttle. |
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| Using a sleep restraint to keep from floating around while sleeping. |
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| Two smaller rocket boosters were mounted onto the fuel tank. |
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| It was used to pick up broken satellites in space. |
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| Sally and four other astronauts were strapped inside the space shuttle. |
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