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Sally Ride Cleans Out Air Filtering on STS-7

Astronaut Sally K. Ride, mission specialist, using a screw driver to clean out an air filtering system in the middeck of the Challenger.
Sally Ride - Inflight View STS-7 - Wearing TFNG Shirt

Sally Ride - Inflight View STS-7 - Wearing TFNG Shirt

Courtesy NASA Johnson Space Center (NASA-JSC)
Inflight view of the crew of STS-7, including Sally Ride. Dr. Ride's constant wear garment bears a cartoon of 35 busy astronauts around a space shuttle and the acronym TFNG, below which is written, "We deliver!". TFNG stands for thirty five new guys, referring to the 1978 class of astronauts from which Dr. Ride and three of her crewmates hail.

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