SALLY RIDE * Ride Estate Signed COA * Her Worn NASA STS-7 Mission Patch T-Shirt

SALLY RIDE'S PERSONALLY OWNED & WORN STS-7 T-SHIRT COMMEMORATING HER HISTORIC FIRST SPACE FLIGHT WITH RIDE ESTATE COA

First American Woman in space DR. SALLY K. RIDE personally owned and worn size Medium gray t-shirt commemorating her first historic trip into space aboard STS-7. The shirt was obtained by us directly from Sally Ride's estate. A remarkably personal and intimate artifact of Ride's ground-breaking space journey.

The 50% cotton / 50% polyester blend Screen Stars brand shirt features the mission insignia and space shuttle Challenger on front, and exhibits signs of both wear and use. Coffee-like stains can be seen on the front beneath the emblem, at lower left, and on the back near the hem.

Ride performed a variety of tasks aboard the space shuttle Challenger as crew member on the historic, six-day STS-7 mission. Ride would go on to become the first American woman to fly twice, with a lifetime total of more than 343 hours spent in space. A two-time Challenger space shuttle astronaut, she would go on to serve on the Rogers Commission, the presidential commission investigating the Challenger disaster. Ride died of pancreatic cancer in 2012.

The Sally Ride t-shirt is accompanied by a COPY of the COA from Mark Roesler, Chairman & CEO of CMG Worldwide, the Official Intellectual Property and Licensing Representative of the Sally Ride Estate certifying that this t-shirt (and others) were personally owned by Sally Ride. 

NOTE: This auction is only for the single gray STS-7 shirt shown. The others are shown for reference only. 

Ride, the youngest American astronaut to have flown in space at just 32, was the first American woman in space, and only the third internationally after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982.

Condition is as shown. NOTE: Item ships folded. Shirt exhibits typical signs of age, wear and use. One of the very few personally-owned and space-related Ride items to have come to market. 

Sold as is, as shown.