On today’s date in 1983, NASA astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, deployed Canada’s Anik C2 satellite into Earth’s orbit from the Challenger space shuttle. The Anik (which means “little brothers” in Inuktitut) was retired in Jan. 7, 1998. While it was a geostationary communications satellite, another satellite—this one launched nearly two decades before […]
