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Who is Sally Ride? Know all about the astronaut mentioned in The Last of Us episode 6

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John Parsons

Published Jan 05, 2026

In The Remainder of Us episode 6, there is a scene where Joel and Ellie are exploring the great outdoors while heading to Wyoming. The team are shown talking about what they would do once the end times reaches a conclusion.

Joel uncovers that he might want to claim a farm, have a lot of sheep, and be a farmer since sheep are calm and do everything they are said to do, in contrast to Ellie. Ellie faculties his mockery and lets him know what she believes that should do after the world is relieved.

She uncovers that she needs to turn into a space traveler. She says she has perused every little thing about them in library books, and even notices two or three renowned space explorers eventually, adding that her most loved was Sally Ride.

Born on May 26, 1951, Sally Ride was a space traveler and physicist from the USA. She was born in LA, California, and joined NASA in 1978. In 1983, Sally Ride turned into the main American lady and the third lady to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982, who were both Russian.

En 1983 Sally Ride se preparaba para un viaje a la Estación Espacial Internacional y los ingenieros de la NASA no queriendo dejar ningún detalle suelto le preguntaron si 100 tampones serían suficientes para su viaje…

Sally Ride was an alum of Stanford College, where she procured various degrees. These elaborate a Four year certification in scientific studies certification in physical science and a Four year certification in liberal arts degree in English writing in 1973, an Expert of Science certificate in physical science in 1975, and a Specialist of Reasoning in physical science in 1978 for research on the connection of X-beams with the interstellar medium.

In June 1983, she flew into space on the Space Transport Challenger on the STS-7 mission. Two correspondence satellites were sent in the mission alongside the primary Transport bed satellite (SPAS-1). She worked the automated arm to send and bring back the SPAS-1. In 1984, she went to space for the subsequent time. She spent a sum of over 343 hours in space.

Subsequent to leaving NASA in 1987, Sally Ride labored for a considerable length of time at Stanford College’s Middle for Global Security and Arms Control, then at the College of California, San Diego.

She was hitched to space explorer Steven Hawley yet was in a drawn out relationship with previous Ladies’ Tennis Affiliation player Cap O’Shaughnessy.

Sally Ride died of pancreatic disease on July 23, 2012. She is the primary space traveler known to have a place with the LGBTQ+ people group.

HBO’s The Remainder of Us is the organization’s most recent television peculiarity, which has noticeably been breaking all viewership records many weeks. It stars Pedro Pascal as, Joel, a hooligan who is entrusted with shipping a 14-year-old young lady called Ellie, played by Bella Ramsey. Ellie is extraordinary as she is invulnerable to a deadly infection that has killed humankind from the essence of the planet.


It’s accepted that her blood could assist researchers with making an immunization that could save the planet which has been tainted by a deadly parasite called ‘Cordyceps’.

“In view of the widely praised computer game The Remainder of Us, created by Wicked Canine for the PlayStation stages, the story happens twenty years after present day human advancement has been obliterated. Joel, a solidified survivor, is employed to carry Ellie, a 14-year-old young lady, out of a severe quarantine zone. Which begins as a little occupation before long turns into a ruthless, shocking excursion, as the two of them should navigate the U.S. also, rely upon one another for endurance.”

The show was made by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, with Carolyn Strauss, Evan Wells, Asad Qizilbash, Carter Swan, and Rose Lam filling in as its leader makers.