SALLY RIDE

Sally Ride was the first American women to go to space.🌌

This is a place were Sally Ride was Co-founder.

THIS IS LA JOLLA,CALI. WERE SALLY DIED.

EARLY FACTS

• Sally was born Encino,Cali. May 26, 1951
• Her real name is Sally Kirsten Ride.
• Parents:Dale Burdell Ride ( father) Carol Jocye Ride (mother)
• Sister: Karen Bear Ride

EDUCATION

• Portola Middle School
• Harvard Westlake School
• Birmingham High School
• Swathmore College
• Standford University

NASA

• Ride joined NASA 1978 age 32
• Sally was one of 8,000 to get an advertisment of NASA
• Ride served as ground-based capsule communicator
• June 18,1983 Sally was the First American Women to go to space
• Her second flight was 1984 , a total of 340 hours

AFTER NASA

• 1987 Sally left her position to work a Stanford University Center for International Security and Arms Control.
• 1989 Ride became a professor of physics at the University of Cali. , San Diego
• Also director California Space Institute
• Around from 1990,Sally lead two public-outreach programs ISS EarthKAM and Grail MoonKam
• Ride was president and CEO of Sally Ride Science

DEATH

• Sally died July 23 , 2012
• 17 months of pancreatic cancer
• She was 61 years old
• Following her cremation, her ashes were interred next to her fathers
• Located at Woodlawn Cemetery , Santa Monica,Cali.

PERSONAL LIFE

• Sally married Steven Hawley 1982 got divorced 1987
• Had no children
• Ride kept her sickness and treatments a secret
• Sally was the oldest child
• Lived in Los Angeles ,California
• She got to met Sesame Street
• Ride wore a raggy shirt and pants instead of a white gown

Awards & honors

• National Space Society
• Lindbergh Eagle
• NCAA's Theodore Roosevelt Award
• National Women's Hall of Fame
• Astronaut Hall of Fame
• NASA Space Flight Medal twic
• Got named two schools after her

HOBBIES & CHILDHOOD

• Sally loved to play softball, volleyball, football ,and basketball
• Went to Europe at age nine
• Used to write books
• Liked astronomy,writing and science