IMAGE 400_499\459.Lbm,Emblem for STS-7, Challenger, June 1983: Crippen, Hauck, Ride, Thagard. First US space flight by female astronaut, Sally Ride.
IMAGE 1800_99\801.Lbm,The STS-7 crew of five, a space record. They are from the left: Sally Ride, John Fabian, Robert Crippen, Norman Thagard and Richard Hauck.
IMAGE 1800_99\802.Lbm,The first US woman astronaut, Sally Ride, leaving Houston for the Kennedy Space Center. (STS-7)
IMAGE 0_99\5.Lbm,Sally Ride zipped up in her sleeping bag during her first flight into orbit on Challenger on the STS-7 mission in June 1983.
IMAGE 700_799\794.Lbm,Sally Ride inside the shuttle mission simulator at the Johnson Space Center after completing a training session for her first space flight (STS-7).
IMAGE 700_799\705.Lbm,Challenger in orbit on its second trip into space (STS-7). The picture was taken by the SPAS-1 satellite it had just launched.
IMAGE 700_799\751.Lbm,Challenger in orbit on STS-7, photographed from the temporary satellite SPAS-1.
IMAGE 1800_99\803.Lbm,A month before lift-off, the STS-7 crew train inside the shuttle mission simulator.
IMAGE 1800_99\804.Lbm,The seventh shuttle mission gets underway, as Challenger lifts off the pad on June 18, 1983. (STS-7)
IMAGE 1800_99\805.Lbm,Firing the orbital manoeuvring engines causes the glow aft. In the payload bay are the SPAS-1 satellite and cradles for two comsats. (STS-7)
IMAGE 1800_99\806.Lbm,Arms floating free, Norman Thagard sleeps zipped into his sleep restraint. (STS-7)