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Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist.Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982.
Sally Ride EarthKAM (Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students) is a NASA educational outreach program started in 1996. The program was initiated by JoBea Way Holt, an Earth scientist from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and was initially named KidSat. It allowed students to direct a digital camera aboard a series of space shuttle ...
Sally Ride (1951–2012), the first American woman in space, was an astronaut and physicist. Sally Ride may also refer to: Sally Ride Science, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California, USA; Sally Ride Elementary School, Orange County Public Schools, Orange County, Florida, USA
Tam Elizabeth O'Shaughnessy (born January 27, 1952) is an American children's science writer and former professional tennis player who co-founded the science education company Sally Ride Science together with her life partner, astronaut Sally Ride – the first American woman and third woman in space.
Sally Ride Science at UC San Diego is a nonprofit run by the University of California, San Diego.It was founded as a company in 2001 by Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, along with Tam O'Shaughnessy, Karen Flammer, Terry McEntee, and Alann Lopes to inspire young people in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and to promote STEM literacy.
Sally Field, 76, has been in a number of female-led shows and movies, from The Flying Nun to 80 for Brady, but it seems she should've been a part of Bring It On, because the veteran actress used ...
Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American physicist and astronaut. Born in Los Angeles , she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983. She remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32.
Leah Lowenstein was the first woman dean of a co-educational medical school in the United States. [194] 1983 Elizabeth Dole became the first woman to serve as Secretary of Transportation; she served under President Ronald Reagan. [4] Sally Ride was the first American woman in space. [195]