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Sally Ride
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On June 18th, 1983 the Challenger, an American space shuttle wasn't holding a regular crew of all men, the shuttle was carrying Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. Sally Ride was born on May 26th, 1951 in Los Angeles, California. At a young age Ride grew a love for science which later prompted her to apply for NASA. She later attended Stanford, where she earned her P.h.D and B.A in physics. Sally Ride is a national hero because she was willing to risk her life for science, and proved women can do anything they put their mind to.
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Sally Ride was married in 1985 to astronaut Steven Hawley, but they were later divorced. She later met Tam O's\Shaughnessy who later became her partner and co-founder of her organization. Before she trained for launch, she worked in the control center and worked as a communicator and engineer. After training to go into orbit, she became an operator of the Challenger's manipulator arm.
In 1977, when Sally was attending Stanford, she was flipping through her school's newspaper when an ad caught her eye, it was asking for applicants who were open to work for NASA. Though Ride never saw herself as
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Template:PpTemplate:Infobox personSally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American physicist and astronaut. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983. She remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32.[1][2] After flying twice on the Orbiter Challenger, she left NASA in 1987. She worked for two years at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, then at the University of California, San Diego as a professor of physics, primarily researching nonlinear optics and Thomson scattering. She served on the committees that investigated the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters, the only person to participate on both.[3][4] Ride died of pancreatic cancer on July 23, 2012.
Early life and education[]
The elder child of Dale Burdell Ride and Carol Joyce (née Anderson), Ride was born in Los Angeles, California. She had one sibling, Karen "Bear" Ride, who is a Presbyterian minister. Both parents were elders in the Presbyterian Church. Ride's mother had worked as a volunteer counselor at a women's correctional facility. Her father had been a political science professor at S
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