NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) set the Sally Ride as the first woman astronaut in the world. Sally's first flight was performed on June 18, 1983. Sally's first flight using the unique satellite Plapa B-1 of the company's General Telecommunications Indonesia.But do you know that Indonesia became the first country in Asia to send first astronaut came from Indonesia? He was Pratiwi Sudarmono. He was elected along with Taufik Akbar in the framework of the cooperation Indonesia along with NASA for the launch of satelit Palapa. Before you start the mission, they were first given training by NASA. Rencanya originally Pratiwi specialist pay will be loaded or crew operating satellite Palapa B-3. Meanwhile, Taufik made as a backup astronaut.However, the mission they were both cancelled due to an accident, that the hit of the Challenger Space Shuttle-ulak aircraft shall perform the mission STS-51-L after 73 minutes the aircraft was launched on January 28, 1986 which resulted in the death of seven crew.
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