Sally Kristen Ride was born 26 May, 1951 in Encino,
Los Angeles, California, U.S. She was the first child of Dale Burdell Ride and
Carol Joyce. She had one sister, Karen. Sally went to Portola Junior High and
then to Birmingham High School. She graduated from the private Westlake School
for Girls in L.A. She attended Swarthmore College for three semesters. She took
physics courses at University of California and then entered Stanford
University as a junior, graduating with a bachelor's degree in English and physics.
At Stanford, she got a master's degree in 1975 and a PhD in physics in 1978.
Sally was one of the 8,000 people who answered an
advertisement in the Stanford student newspaper for a space program. She was chosen
to join NASA in 1978. During her career, she was communicator of the capsule (CapCom)
for the second and third space shuttle flights and helped develop the space
shuttle's "Canadarm" robot arm. In the 18 of July in 1983 she was the
first womAn in America who went to the space in the space shuttle Challenger. Her
second space flight was in 1984, on the Challenger toO . She had completed eight
months of training for her third flight when the space shuttle Challenger had a
disaster. She
was named to the Rogers Commission (the presidential commission investigating
the accident). After this, Sally was destined to the central office in Washington,
D.C
Ride was famous because she received numerous awards. She was into
the National Women's Hall of Fame and the Astronaut Hall of Fame. She was an
American physicist and astronaut. Ride was the third woman in space, after Valentina
Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982). Ride remains the youngest
American astronaut to have travelled to space, at the age of 32.
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