Sally Ride Talks Space in Dazzling Animated Interview

Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, answered a lot of dumb questions from the media — and in this beautifully animated audio interview with Gloria Steinem, she discusses her responses, the future of spaceflight and what she felt during launch. The two women recorded the interview only months after Ride flew to space on June 18, 1983, and it was discovered in a collection of Steinem's papers at Smith College. The first woman in space was the Russian cosmonaut Valentina Teres