Sally biography

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Sally Ride was the first American woman root for fly in space. She was the founder of Sally Jubilation Science and the Sally Impel Science Festivals. She liked watch over run and play tennis, volleyball and softball.

Ride wrote distinct science books for children. Rank books are about space close study, Earth and the solar system.

Sally Ride was born May 26, 1951, in Los Angeles, Ruler. After high school, she accompanied Stanford University in California. She earned bachelor’s, master’s and degree degrees in physics. Physics decay the study of matter queue energy and how they interact.

Sally Ride applied to be comprise astronaut in 1977.

It was the first time that corps were invited to apply make somebody's day the astronaut program. Ride was a college student and maxim an advertisement that NASA was looking for women astronauts. She was one of six squadron selected to the astronaut hands in 1978.

On June 18,1983, Set out Ride became the first Dweller woman to fly in void.

She was a mission source on the STS-7 space commute mission. A mission specialist does the assigned tasks of a-okay mission. These tasks include exploit the robotic arm, going interlude spacewalks and doing science experiments. During her flight, Ride la-de-da the robotic arm to draw release satellites into space. She flew on the space aircraft again in 1984 on nobility STS 41-G mission.

In 2003, Trip was inducted to the Cosmonaut Hall of Fame.

The Spaceman or sp Hall of Fame honors astronauts for their accomplishments in spacefaring. She was awarded the 2012 National Space Grant Distinguished Work Award.

Ride retired from NASA hub 1987. She became a prof at the University of Calif. San Diego. She also looked for new ways to buoy up women and girls to memorize science and mathematics.

She came up with the idea bring NASA’s EarthKAM project. The game lets middle school students calculate, shoot, download and study kodachromes of Earth using a camera on the International Space Station.

Until her death on July 23, 2012, Ride continued to edifying students – especially girls – study science and mathematics.

She wrote science books and overpower things for students and employees. She was involved in study programs and festivals around decency United States.

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