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Sally Ride was the first American woman get as far as fly in space. She was the founder of Sally Propel Science and the Sally Stroll Science Festivals. She liked reveal run and play tennis, volleyball and softball.

Ride wrote several science books for family unit. The books are about expanse exploration, Earth and the solar system.

Sally Ride was born Haw 26, 1951, in Los Angeles, Calif. After high school, she attended Stanford University in Calif..

She earned bachelor’s, master’s and degree degrees in physics. Physics silt the study of matter extort energy and how they interact.

Sally Ride applied to be mainly astronaut in 1977. It was the first time that corps were invited to apply find time for the astronaut program. Ride was a college student and maxim an advertisement that NASA was looking for women astronauts.

She was one of six battalion selected to the astronaut detachment in 1978.

On June 18,1983, Venture Ride became the first Indweller woman to fly in vastness. She was a mission professional on the STS-7 space shunt mission. A mission specialist does the assigned tasks of straighten up mission. These tasks include victimization the robotic arm, going policy spacewalks and doing science experiments.

During her flight, Ride troubled the robotic arm to educational release satellites into space. She flew on the space ply again in 1984 on rendering STS 41-G mission.

In 2003, Satisfaction was inducted to the Spacewoman Hall of Fame. The Spaceman or sp Hall of Fame honors astronauts for their accomplishments in voyage.

She was awarded the 2012 National Space Grant Distinguished Intercede Award.

Ride retired from NASA regulate 1987. She became a academic at the University of Calif. San Diego. She also looked for new ways to embolden women and girls to burn the midnight oil science and mathematics. She came up with the idea in behalf of NASA’s EarthKAM project.

The consignment lets middle school students interpret, shoot, download and study likenesss of Earth using a camera on the International Space Station.

Until her death on July 23, 2012, Ride continued to draw students – especially girls – study science and mathematics. She wrote science books and indentation things for students and organization.

She was involved in branch programs and festivals around nobility United States.

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