8/16/2023 0 Comments Russian space shuttle dinner(Image credit: Smithsonian/Jim Preston)įor its part, the National Air and Space Museum has again partnered with the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball team for a space-themed game at Nationals Park in Washington, DC. The National Air and Space Museum has again partnered with the Nationals Major League Baseball team to celebrate Sally's Night at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. "We felt that her legacy really spoke to what we were hoping to do with this event, which is to use a central figure with name recognition, like Sally Ride, to catalyze a conversation about the ways in which women have contributed to spaceflight or STEM more broadly," said Margolis. "She was not only an astronaut, but she was a scientist and an educator and a lifelong advocate for young people in STEM." "We wanted to take inspiration from Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, because she was so much more than that," Emily Margolis, a curator at the National Air and Space Museum and founder of Sally's Night, said in an interview with. Now in its third year, the event was named in honor of the late astronaut Sally Ride. Sally's Night is a nationwide celebration of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) led by the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. From an afternoon at the ballpark to Afternoon Tea, museums and science centers across the United States are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first American woman in space.
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