Orange County Regional History Center will celebrate Sally’s Night, a salute to the legacy of astronaut Sally Ride, with family-friendly activities and a presentation by NASA chief technologist Kathleen B. Loftin on June 15.

Sally’s Night is led by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum.  It is in recognition of Ride, who became the first American woman in space (and the third woman from any nation) in June 1983.  When she took off as part of the Space Shuttle Challenger crew, she became the youngest American in space at age 32.

Event hours will be 5-8 p.m. at the museum at 65 E. Central Blvd. in Orlando. Visitors can craft constellations, train for space exploration with astronaut gloves and experience an immersive pop-up planetarium. Loftin, who manages research and technology projects at Kennedy Space Center, will speak at 6 p.m.

The event coincides with Third Thursday in Downtown Orlando, when the history center offers free admission.

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Ride retired from the space program in 1987. In 2001, she founded Sally Ride Science, to encourage young people, particularly girls, to pursue careers in science and technology. She died in 2012 at age 61.

For more information, go to thehistorycenter.org.

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