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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.
On April 23, 2007, at the age of 75, she became one of the oldest people to set foot on the North Pole, and the first black woman. [10] [9] Five years later, she became the first African-American woman on record to stand on the South Pole at age 79, on January 6, 2011. [9] Following her expeditions, Hillary became an inspirational speaker.
Louise Arner Boyd (September 16, 1887 – September 14, 1972) was an American explorer of Greenland and the Arctic, who wrote extensively of her scientific expeditions.She became the first woman to fly over the North Pole in 1955, after privately chartering a DC-4 and crew that included aviation pioneers Thor Solberg and Paul Mlinar.
His father spent US$100,000 ($1.74 million in 2023) to fund Roald Amundsen's 1925 attempt to fly from Svalbard to the North Pole. Amundsen, accompanied by Lincoln Ellsworth, pilot Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen , flight mechanic Karl Feucht , and two other team members, set out in two Dornier Wal flying boats, the N24 and N25, in an attempted to reach ...
Alleen Mae Beller (January 25, 1923 – January 27, 2013), also known as Sally Starr, was a prominent 1950s and 1960s celebrity television personality. Using a cowgirl persona, she appealed to local TV audiences of several generations of children through American radio , Broadway stage, movies and as a recording artist for more than sixty years.
SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers for Season 4, Episode 5 of “Barry,” now streaming on HBO Max. Last week’s episode of “Barry” ended on one of the show’s most bizarre ...
The average cloud weighs over one million pounds. Wearing a necktie could reduce blood flow to your brain by up to 7.5 percent. Animals can also be allergic to humans.
Brown was born in Roanoke, Virginia, in 1969. [2] [1] She loved Star Trek and Star Wars. [3]She graduated from William Fleming High School in 1987 as valedictorian. [4] When a high school assignment led her on a trip to an observatory, she saw the Ring Nebula through a telescope, which she cites as the moment she "got hooked on astronomy."