Sally Ride

Also known as Dr Sally Kristen Ride, Sally Ride- Hawley, Sally K. Ride

American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)

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Sally Ride was an American astronaut and physicist who became the first American woman in space when she flew on the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983. Her groundbreaking achievement helped open the space program to women and demonstrated that qualified female astronauts could perform at the highest levels of spaceflight.

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Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1988

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Discography

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Sally Ride is a 3-piece punk band formed by Tim and Nick, former members of The Befoulers after the band called it quits in 2005. Shamus, also from The Befoulers briefly played drums for Sally Ride before moving to California and being replaced by Josh. for more info see myspace.com/sallrideband <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sally+Ride">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

“When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion — because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.”
“It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission. It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission. So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight. Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.”
“It's easy to sleep floating around — it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!”
“The view of Earth is spectacular. The shuttle is pretty close to Earth. It only flies between 200 and 350 miles above Earth. So it's really pretty close. So we don't see the whole planet, like the astronauts who went to the moon did. So we can see much more detail. We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form. It's just a lot of fun and very interesting to look out the window.”
“When you're on Earth, if you go to the top of a mountain, the stars look much brighter than they do at sea level. And because the space shuttle is above Earth's atmosphere, it's like being on a very, very high mountain. So they look brighter, but not bigger.”
“There might be very primitive life in our solar system — single-cell animals, that sort of thing. We may know the answer to that in five or ten years. There is very likely to be life in other solar systems, in planets around other stars. But we won't know about that for a long time.”

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Commons category: Sally Ride
date of birth: 1951-05-26
date of death: 2012-07-23
described at URL: www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ride-sk.html
time in space: 20626
name in native language: Sally Elizabeth Ride Gómez
member of the crew of: STS-41-G
P450: STS-41-G

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Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951–July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Southern California, 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. She was the youngest American astronaut to have flown in space, having done so at the age of 32.

Ride was a graduate of Stanford University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature in 1973, a Master of Science degree in 1975, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1978 (both in physics) for research on the interaction of X-rays with the interstellar medium. She was selected as a mission specialist astronaut with NASA Astronaut Group 8, the first class of NASA astronauts to include women. After completing her training in 1979, she served as the ground-based capsule communicator (CapCom) for the second and third Space Shuttle flights, and helped develop the Space Shuttle's robotic arm. In June 1983, she flew in space on the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-7 mission. The mission deployed two communications satellites and the first Shuttle pallet satellite (SPAS-1). Ride operated the robotic arm to deploy and retrieve SPAS-1. Her second space flight was the STS-41-G mission in 1984, also on board Challenger. She spent a total of more than 343 hours in space. She left NASA in 1987.