USS Sally Ride, NCC-74710-A

The USS Sally Ride is an Inquiry Class Heavy Cruiser in service with Star Fleet.

STARSHIP
USS Sally Ride, NCC-74710-A
Class	Inquiry-class
Allegiance	United Federation of Planets
Commanding Officer	Captain T'Lan
Status	Active (242004.01)
Specifications
Type:	Heavy Cruiser
Length:	640 Meters
Beam:	320 Meters
Height:	86 Meters
Mass:	3,055,000 Metric Tons
Decks:	24
Crew Compliment:	Standard: 75 Officers, 275 Enlisted Emergency: 2,500
Warp Speed:	Type: 2 Main Warp Engines Cruise Speed: 9 Sustainable Speed: 9 Emergency Speed: 9.99 (12 hour automatic shutdown)
Impulse Engines:	Type: 1 Main Impulse Engine (MIE) Speed: .93 C
Defensive Systems:	Type 2 Main Shield Generator (MSG-2)
Other Defensive Systems:	Deflector Shields
Armament:	Phasers: 11x Type-I Phaser Arrays Torpedoes: 4 Burst-Fire Quantum Photon Torpedo Launchers (2F/2A)
Computer System:	Daystrom Industries HSCS-3
Tractor/Repulsor:	2 Main Tractor/Repulsor Beams, 6 Docking Tractors, 2 Shuttle Tractors
Shuttlecraft:	1 Bay (A); 2 Runabouts, 10 Shuttles.
Sensors:	Andorian Industries FSMSA-3

Lineage

The USS Sally Ride is named for American physicist and astronaut Sally Ride. In 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman in space, as part of the NASA crew of the space shuttle OV-099 Challenger. Having done so at the age of 32, she remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space. Sally Ride was also the first known LGBT astronaut.

USS Sally Ride, LE-20001 is the third starship to bear the name. The following vessels have carried the name Sally Ride:

• USS Ride (recommissioned as Sally Ride after refit), a Shephard-class Starship in service in the 2250s and 60s.
• USS Sally Ride (NCC-74710), an Intrepid Class Starship in service in the late 24th and early 25th centuries.

Current: USS Sally Ride, NCC-74710-A
Vessel Class: Inquiry Class Heavy Cruiser
Commanding Officer: Captain T'Lan
Stardate 242001.01 - Present