Statue of Sally Ride | |
Italic Title: | no |
Artist: | George Lundeen, Mark Lundeen, and Joey Bainer |
Medium: | Bronze and gold sculpture |
Subject: | Sally Ride |
Museum: | Cradle of Aviation Museum |
City: | Garden City, New York, U.S. |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Zoom: | 13 |
A statue of NASA astronaut Sally Ride was installed outside the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, New York, in 2022.[1] Ride, the first American woman in space, is shown holding a Space Shuttle in her right hand and pointing it skywards. She flew on the Space Shuttle Challenger twice, on mission STS-7 in 1983 and STS-41-G in 1984.
The statue, by George Lundeen, Mark Lundeen, and Joey Bainer, is seven feet tall.