Sally Ride was the first American woman to go into space. She made two shuttle flights and later became a champion for science education and a role model for generations.
9. Inspiring Women in Science Sally Ride was a trailblazer for women in science, and she was passionate about inspiring the next generation of female scientists. To further this mission, she co-founded Sally Ride Science, an organization dedicated to providing resources and support to young women...
Sally K. Ride became the first American woman in space. Her flight, aboard the space shuttle Challenger, itself challenged long-held stereotypes about who would make a good space traveler. But Sally Ride’s impact goes beyond being “first.” Throughout her life of science and service, she...
That also was the year Ride published her first book, To Space and Back. In 1987, Ride retired from NASA and returned to California, where she accepted a science fellowship at the Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford University. She worked at Stanford for two years,...
"Thirty-Five New Guys" and reported to the Johnson Space Center the next summer to begin training. Ride trained for five years before she and three of her classmates were assigned to STS-7. The six-day mission deployed two communications satellites and performed a number of science experim...
The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter. 1Share Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in. 3Share Sally Ride Quotes...
Dr. Sally Ride broke barriers in many ways.When the space shuttle Challenger lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in 1983, Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman - and, at 32, the youngest American - in space."I'd been planning to go into research in physics and was contin...
"We rememberSally Ridenot just as a national hero, but as a role model to generations of young women," Obama said in a statement released by the White House. "Sally inspired us to reach for the stars, and she advocated for a greater focus on the science, technology, engineering and mat...
Ride remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32. After flying twice on the Orbiter Challenger, she left NASA in 1987. Ride worked for two years at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, then at ...
Sally Ride was born in a suburb of Los Angeles in Encino, California, on May 26, 1951. She was the first child of parents, Carol Joyce Ride (a counselor at the county jail) and Dale Burdell Ride (a political science professor at Santa Monica College). A younger sister, Karen, would ...