Sally Ride
I chose to do Sally Ride because I don't know much about her ,but I have always heard she was a really cool person. I also know that she was the first women ever to be sent in a spacecraft, but that is about all I really know about her.
“Our future lies with today's kids and tomorrow's space exploration.”
Facts about Sally Ride
Born: Sally was born in May 26, 1951 in Encino, California (near Los Angeles).
Parents: Her parents are Dale Berdel and Carol Joyce (Anderson).
Greatest Achievement: Her greatest honor was that she was the first women
ever to be sent to outer space in a spacecraft.
Education : She went to at the Stanford University Center for International
Security and Arms Control.She was also a professor at the University of
California San Diego.
Sally Ride was only ten years old when she first started to play tennis with her friends. She became a great player and got a scholarship at Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles and graduated in 1968.She then attended Swarthmore College , but dropped out because she wanted to continue her career as a pro tennis player. Three months later after all of the hard practices she decided to drop out because she was not good enough to become a pro so she enrolled at Stanford University.
At 27 ,she got her Masters degree and her P.H.D. She read that NASA was looking for new astronauts she signed up. More than 8,000 people signed up for the job but only 35 could go. Out of the 35 people that could go only 6 were women , one of the 6 was Sally.
It was 1977 when Sally joined NASA. She had to go through many tests and days of training. Some things that she trained for included parachute jumping, water survival, gravity and weightlessness training, radio communications and navigation. She enjoyed flight training so much that flying became a favorite hobby.
In 1983, Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space on the shuttle Challenger. Her next flight was an eight-day mission in 1984, again on Challenger . Her hours of space flight are more than 343.
Her third voyage was canceled because the challenger blew up. She never got to go on her third voyage in the challenger. She became assistant to the NASA administrator for long-range planning in Washington D.C
Dr. Ride retired from NASA in 1987 to become a Science Fellow at the Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford University. After two years, she was named Director of the California Space Institute and Professor of Physics at
the University of California, San Diego where she encouraged young women to study
science and math.
Bibliography
Sally Kristen Ride First Woman In Space
Female FrontiersByers, Paula Kay. "Sally Ride." Encyclopedia Of World Biography. Vol. 13. Detroit Michigan: Gale Research, 1998. 158-160.
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