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Sally Kristen Ride was born in May 26, 1951 is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut who, in 1983, became the first American woman and then-youngest American to enter space.
Sally Ride, America's first spacewoman, doesn't look very different from a lot of other American professional women. She is attractive, with curly brown hair, dark brown eyes and a bright smile. She likes to dress simply; she wears comfortable but colourful clothes, like many people from California. But in 1983 Sally Ride became America's first woman astronaut. She was one of five astronauts on the space shittle Challenger, which completed a succesful six day voyage in space in june 1983. What makes a woman want to go into space ?
Sally Ride grew up in Los Angeles, California. Her father is a professor at Santa Monica College, and her mother is a housewife. At Westlake High School for Girls, she was both an excellent student and tennis
player. Today she still looks like a sportwoman. She is 1.6 metres tall, weights 52 kilos, and is very fit. When she was still a student, she became a very successful tennis player. She thought about becoming a professional sportswoman. But she decided to continue with her studies at college, and later at university.
People who know her say she is intelligent and confident. She also thinks deeply about things. But she is not always serious. She is fun and enjoys humour, but she is in a hurry to get on to more important things. At high school she became interested in science. At university she studied English and Physics. After completing her studies at Standford University, she worked as a reseacher. In 1977 she was one of 1.000 women and 7.000 men who applied for the astronaut training programme. She was twenty five. She was one of thirty five women who were accepted to start the programme in 1978. As part of her training she learned to be a jet pilot and a flight engineer. She married during her training. Her husband, Hawley, is also an astronaut. They do not plan to have any children yet.
Ride has received numerous honors and awards, including the Jefferson Award for Public Service, the von Braun Award, the Lindbergh Eagle, and the NCAA's Theodore Roosevelt Award. She has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, and the Astronaut Hall of Fame, and has twice been awarded the National Spaceflight Medal (or National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Space Flight Medal). Ride is the only person to serve on both of the panels investigating Shuttle accidents (those for the Challenger accident and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster). Two elementary schools in the United States are named after her: Sally K. Ride Elementary School in The Woodlands, Texas, and Sally K. Ride Elementary School in Germantown, Maryland.
On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Ride into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.
When Nasa decided to put a woman into space, none of Sally's friends were surprised that they choose Sally Ride. She has always been a person who wanted to go further. So when the space shuttle Challenger carried her on her first mission into space, Sally did what she had often done before she left the world behind.
Sally Ride, America's first spacewoman, doesn't look very different from a lot of other American professional women. She is attractive, with curly brown hair, dark brown eyes and a bright smile. She likes to dress simply; she wears comfortable but colourful clothes, like many people from California. But in 1983 Sally Ride became America's first woman astronaut. She was one of five astronauts on the space shittle Challenger, which completed a succesful six day voyage in space in june 1983. What makes a woman want to go into space ?
Sally Ride grew up in Los Angeles, California. Her father is a professor at Santa Monica College, and her mother is a housewife. At Westlake High School for Girls, she was both an excellent student and tennis
player. Today she still looks like a sportwoman. She is 1.6 metres tall, weights 52 kilos, and is very fit. When she was still a student, she became a very successful tennis player. She thought about becoming a professional sportswoman. But she decided to continue with her studies at college, and later at university.
People who know her say she is intelligent and confident. She also thinks deeply about things. But she is not always serious. She is fun and enjoys humour, but she is in a hurry to get on to more important things. At high school she became interested in science. At university she studied English and Physics. After completing her studies at Standford University, she worked as a reseacher. In 1977 she was one of 1.000 women and 7.000 men who applied for the astronaut training programme. She was twenty five. She was one of thirty five women who were accepted to start the programme in 1978. As part of her training she learned to be a jet pilot and a flight engineer. She married during her training. Her husband, Hawley, is also an astronaut. They do not plan to have any children yet.
Ride has received numerous honors and awards, including the Jefferson Award for Public Service, the von Braun Award, the Lindbergh Eagle, and the NCAA's Theodore Roosevelt Award. She has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, and the Astronaut Hall of Fame, and has twice been awarded the National Spaceflight Medal (or National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Space Flight Medal). Ride is the only person to serve on both of the panels investigating Shuttle accidents (those for the Challenger accident and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster). Two elementary schools in the United States are named after her: Sally K. Ride Elementary School in The Woodlands, Texas, and Sally K. Ride Elementary School in Germantown, Maryland.
On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Ride into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.
When Nasa decided to put a woman into space, none of Sally's friends were surprised that they choose Sally Ride. She has always been a person who wanted to go further. So when the space shuttle Challenger carried her on her first mission into space, Sally did what she had often done before she left the world behind.
