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Sally Ride

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

SALLY RIDE

ASTRONAUT, PHYSICIST, EDUCATOR

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

THE UNITED STATES
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NATION OF WORK

THE UNITED STATES
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MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS

  • Youngest woman in space
  • First American woman in space
  • Helped develop robot arm on ISS
  • Wrote children's books on space exploration
  • Formed space organizations
  • Helped investigate Challenger explosion

INTERESTING FACTS

  • Was once one of the top 20 junior tennis players in the country
  • Was the first lesbian in space
  • Was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
  • Was a master at New York Time's crossword puzzles

TOOLS OF THE TRADE

  • Space shuttle
  • Robot arm

MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE PROPOSED

THE BIG BANG THEORY

CONTEMPORARIES

  • CEO of Sally Ride Science
  • U.S. Navy named a research ship after her

BIRTH AND DEATH

BORN- MAY 26, 1951, DIED- JULY 23, 2012

MAJOR WORLD EVENTS

  • Castro took power in 1959
  • Chernobyl incident in 1986
  • Fall of Soviet Union 1991
  • World Wide Web born in CERN 1993
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