By Elizabeth Howell for space.com
An Independence Day ceremony will bring a little more space to a presidential museum.
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Image credit: Steven Barber via collectSPACE.com
A statue of former NASA astronaut Sally Ride will be unveiled July 4 outside the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum, situated west of her hometown of Los Angeles, as part of a series of female-focused monuments designed by filmmaker Steven Barber.
"There's just so many great science female icons that we can build," said Barber, who also designed a bronze statue of Ride that was dedicated in June 2022 at the Cradle of Aviation Museum on Long Island, in the greater New York City area.
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Eds Note: Sally Ride (1951-2012) was the first American woman to fly in space, on STS-7 in 1983. She earned a PhD in Physics from Stanford in 1978, and she was selected as part of NASA Astronaut Group 8. In her class of 35 astronaut candidates, she was one of six women.
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