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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 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.
Hawley married fellow astronaut Sally Ride in 1982. The couple divorced in 1987. The couple divorced in 1987. Subsequently, he married Eileen M. Keegan of Redondo Beach, California , a former public-affairs officer at NASA who was appointed as spokeswoman for then- Kansas Governor Sam Brownback in 2013.
Kristen Stewart is reaching for the stars: The Oscar nominee has signed on to play famed astronaut Sally Ride in an upcoming limited series chronicling the 1986 Challenger disaster, marking her ...
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Sally Ride was the first American female astronaut to travel to space. As a role model to generations of young women, she advocated passionately for science education, stood up for racial and gender equality in the classroom, and taught students from every background that there are no limits to what they can accomplish.
The poet and astronaut will make history again as two of 20 distinguished women to be honored by the U.S. Mint.
Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan was born in Paterson, New Jersey, on October 3, 1951, the daughter of Donald Paul Sullivan and his wife Barbara, née Kelly. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She had a brother, Grant. [ 3 ] In 1958 the family moved to the San Fernando Valley in California, where her father worked in the aerospace industry for Marquardt Corporation . [ 4 ]