Sally Kristen Ride
Born: 26 May 1951, Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality: American
Died: 23 July 2012 (Pancreatic cancer)
Group: NASA Group 8 (16 January 1978)
Status: Deceased
Education
BS (Physics), Stanford University, 1973
BA (English), Stanford University, 1973
MS (Physics), Stanford University, 1975
Ph.D (Physics), Stanford University, 1978
Sally Ride was the first American woman to go into space. At the time of the Challenger disaster, Sally was scheduled for a third trip into space aboard the 61-M mission (cancelled) in the summer of 1986. Sally resigned from NASA in August 1987 to join the staff at Stanford University. She left Stanford in June of 1989 to become head of the Space Science Institute at the University of California - San Diego.
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