18720 Linnet St, Tarzana, CA 91356, United States
Sally studied at Portola Junior High School (present-day Gaspar De Portola Middle School).
700 N Faring Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90077, United States
In 1968, Ride finished Westlake School for Girls (present-day Harvard-Westlake School) in Los Angeles.
500 College Ave, Swarthmore, PA 19081, United States
In 1968, Ride enrolled at Swarthmore College, but soon dropped out to pursue a career in professional tennis.
450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, United States
In 1973, Ride received a Bachelor of Science degree in English and Physics from Stanford University. Later, in 1975, she earned a Master of Arts degree in Physics and in 1978, Sally got a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics from the same university.
Ride on Challenger's mid-deck during STS-7 in 1983.
Ride at a book signing.
NASA’s first six female astronauts (left to right): Sally Ride, Shannon Lucid, Kathy Sullivan, Rhea Seddon, Anna Fisher and Judy Resnick.
Sally Ride looking at Earth from space.
Sally Ride signing books at a Sally Ride Science Festival at NASA Ames, 2007. Photo by Karen Hom/Sally Ride Science.
Astronaut Sally Ride at the CapCom console during STS-2 simulation.
Astronauts Sally Ride and Terry Hart prepare for RMS training for STS-2, 1981.
Astronaut Sally K. Ride goes over post-flight data from STS-3 during a crew debriefing session at JSC.
Sally Ride and Frederick Hauck go over RMS operation procedures.
Sally Ride among the crew of STS-7, in an official crew portrait.
Sally Ride and STS-7 Crew Training in the Shuttle Mission Simulator. Courtesy of NASA Johnson Space Center (NASA-JSC).
NASA Space Flight Medal
Presidential Medal of Freedom
18720 Linnet St, Tarzana, CA 91356, United States
Sally studied at Portola Junior High School (present-day Gaspar De Portola Middle School).
700 N Faring Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90077, United States
In 1968, Ride finished Westlake School for Girls (present-day Harvard-Westlake School) in Los Angeles.
500 College Ave, Swarthmore, PA 19081, United States
In 1968, Ride enrolled at Swarthmore College, but soon dropped out to pursue a career in professional tennis.
450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, United States
In 1973, Ride received a Bachelor of Science degree in English and Physics from Stanford University. Later, in 1975, she earned a Master of Arts degree in Physics and in 1978, Sally got a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics from the same university.
NASA Space Flight Medal
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Ride on Challenger's mid-deck during STS-7 in 1983.
Ride at a book signing.
NASA’s first six female astronauts (left to right): Sally Ride, Shannon Lucid, Kathy Sullivan, Rhea Seddon, Anna Fisher and Judy Resnick.
Sally Ride looking at Earth from space.
Sally Ride signing books at a Sally Ride Science Festival at NASA Ames, 2007. Photo by Karen Hom/Sally Ride Science.
Sally with her father Dale Ride.
Sally shoots a layup during a basketball game.
Sally Ride during a break from tennis.
Astronaut Sally Ride at the CapCom console during STS-2 simulation.
Astronauts Sally Ride and Terry Hart prepare for RMS training for STS-2, 1981.
Astronaut Sally K. Ride goes over post-flight data from STS-3 during a crew debriefing session at JSC.
Sally Ride and Frederick Hauck go over RMS operation procedures.
Sally Ride among the crew of STS-7, in an official crew portrait.
Sally Ride and STS-7 Crew Training in the Shuttle Mission Simulator. Courtesy of NASA Johnson Space Center (NASA-JSC).
(In this book, with the help of journalist Susan Okie, Sal...)
In this book, with the help of journalist Susan Okie, Sally shares her personal experience of traveling into space. From discussing the experience of living and working in the weightlessness of space to explaining how astronauts train and adapt to their new environment, she answers the most frequently asked questions about her journey through space.
https://www.amazon.com/Space-Back-Sally-Ride/dp/0688091121/?tag=2022091-20
1986
(Astronaut Sally Ride describes one of NASA's greatest acc...)
Astronaut Sally Ride describes one of NASA's greatest accomplishments: the 12-year interplanetary flight of the Voyager space probes. Ride gives an insider's account of the mission, the spacecraft and some of their truly remarkable discoveries, including previously unseen rings around the planets and unsuspected volcanoes on the solar system's moons.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0517581574/?tag=2022091-20
1992
(With the help of eye-opening NASA photos of the earth, th...)
With the help of eye-opening NASA photos of the earth, the authors explain some of the relationships among the earth's physical systems, including the oceans, atmosphere and climate, and icecaps, landmasses and weather systems. They go on to explore the place life occupies on earth, from plankton in the oceans to human beings everywhere, whose impact on the planet is visible even from space.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0517593610/?tag=2022091-20
1994
(In "The Mystery of Mars", former astronaut Sally Ride and...)
In "The Mystery of Mars", former astronaut Sally Ride and science teacher Tam O'Shaughnessy draw on the latest Pathfinder data, as well as decades of study of Mars, to present a comprehensive overview of Earth's nearest neighbor.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0517709716/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(Enhanced with full color photos, the evolution of the sol...)
Enhanced with full color photos, the evolution of the solar system is examined and explored through scientific facts about the sun, the earth and all the planets with a review of their past and present day composition, potential for sustaining living organisms.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375912045/?tag=2022091-20
2003
(Beginning with Sally Ride's unique, astronaut's-eye view ...)
Beginning with Sally Ride's unique, astronaut's-eye view of Earth's fragile atmosphere, this book describes how water, air and other climate systems shape our world, and how a disruption in one part of the system can spread through the entire planet.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005KJJ3FO/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(From simple measures like turning off the water while you...)
From simple measures like turning off the water while you brush your teeth, to bigger challenges like making some noise in the larger community, this simple guide helps lay a conceptual foundation for kids to become responsible energy consumers in the years to come.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00633W5L0/?tag=2022091-20
2009
Astronaut educator engineer physicist scientist author
Sally Ride was born on May 26, 1951, in Encino, Los Angeles, California, United States. She was a daughter of Dale Burdell Ride, a professor of political science at Santa Monica College, and Carol Joyce (Anderson) Ride, a volunteer counselor at a women's correctional facility. Sally was a sister of Karen "Bear" Ride, a Presbyterian minister.
In her early years, Sally studied at Portola Junior High School (present-day Gaspar De Portola Middle School). Then, she attended Birmingham High School.
Sally started playing tennis at the age of ten and became an excellent tennis player some time later. She won a tennis scholarship to Westlake School for Girls (present-day Harvard-Westlake School) in Los Angeles. In 1968, Ride finished the school and the same year, she enrolled at Swarthmore College, but soon dropped out to pursue a career in professional tennis. After three months of hard practice as a tennis player, Sally decided she was not good enough to become a professional. She quit tennis and enrolled at Stanford University.
In 1973, Ride received a Bachelor of Science degree in English and Physics from Stanford University. Later, in 1975, she earned a Master of Arts degree in Physics and in 1978, Sally got a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics from the same university.
Later, in August 1979, Ride completed her NASA training, obtained a pilot’s license and became eligible for assignment as a United States space shuttle mission specialist.
At the age of twenty-seven, Sally was a Doctor of Philosophy candidate, looking for postdoctoral work in Astrophysics, when she read about NASA's (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) call for astronauts in the Stanford University paper. More than 8,000 men and women applied to the space program that year. Only thirty-five were accepted, six of whom were women. One of these women was Sally Ride.
After joining NASA in 1977, Ride underwent extensive training, that included parachute jumping, water survival, gravity and weightlessness training, radio communications and navigation. She enjoyed flight training so much, that flying became her favorite hobby. During the second and third flights of the space shuttle Columbia (November 1981 and March 1982), Ride served as a communications officer, relaying radio messages from mission control to the shuttle crews. Ride was also assigned to the team, that designed the remote mechanical arm, used by shuttle crews to deploy and retrieve satellites.
In 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman in space on the shuttle Challenger (STS-7). Her next flight was an eight-day mission in 1984, again on Challenger (STS 41-G). Her cumulative hours of space flight number more than 343.
Ride was preparing for her third mission, when Challenger exploded in 1986. When training was suspended, she was appointed a member of President Ronald Reagan’s Rogers Commission, investigating the accident. She held the post till 1987.
Also, in 1986, Sally moved to NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., where she became a special assistant for long-range and strategic planning to NASA administrator James C. Fletcher. Ride created NASA's "Office of Exploration" and produced a report on the future of the space program, "Leadership and America's Future in Space".
Ride retired from NASA in 1987 to become a Science Fellow at the Center for International Security and Arms Control (present-day Center for International Security and Cooperation) at Stanford University. She held the post till 1989, when she was appointed a director of the California Space Institute and Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego, where she pursued one of her heartfelt crusades, encouraging young women to study Science and Maths.
In June, 1999, Ride joined "space.com", a website about the space industry, as an Executive Vice President and member of its Board of Directors. In September, 1999, she was named a president of the company, a position she held until September, 2000.
After leaving space.com, Ride initiated and headed EarthKAM, an Internet-based NASA project, that allows middle-school classes to shoot and download photos of the Earth from space.
In 2001, Ride co-founded Sally Ride Science, a nonprofit organization, of which she later was a president and CEO. The company provides support for all the girls, who are, or might become, interested in Science, Maths and Technology. One instrument of this mission is the Sally Ride Club, created for upper elementary and middle school girls across the country.
On May 7, 2009, Sally was a member of the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee, an independent review, requested by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). In her later years, Sally acted as a member of board of directors at Apple Computer Inc.
Sally Ride gained prominence as the first American woman in space and the third woman in space overall, after USSR cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982).
During her lifetime, she received many awards, including the NASA Space Flight Medal in 1983 and 1984, Jefferson Award for Public Service in 1984, Samuel S. Beard Award in 1994 and others.
On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Ride into the California Hall of Fame at the California Museum for History, Women and the Arts. The following year, in 2007, Sally was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio.
In April 2013, the United States Navy announced, that a research ship would be named in honor of Ride. This was done in 2014 with the christening of the oceanographic research vessel RV Sally Ride (AGOR-28).
Also, on November 20, 2013, Ride was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Earlier the same year, "Flying magazine" ranked Sally at number 50 on their list of the "51 Heroes of Aviation". In 2017, a Google Doodle honored Ride on International Women's Day.
There are two elementary schools in the United States named after Sally.
(From simple measures like turning off the water while you...)
2009(Enhanced with full color photos, the evolution of the sol...)
2003(Beginning with Sally Ride's unique, astronaut's-eye view ...)
2009(In "The Mystery of Mars", former astronaut Sally Ride and...)
1999(With the help of eye-opening NASA photos of the earth, th...)
1994(Astronaut Sally Ride describes one of NASA's greatest acc...)
1992(In this book, with the help of journalist Susan Okie, Sal...)
1986
Quotations:
"I would like to be remembered as someone, who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone, who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals."
"If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys."
"The best advice I can give anybody is to try to understand who you are and what you want to do, and don't be afraid to go down that road and do whatever it takes and work as hard as you have to work to achieve that."
"Three Secrets to Success: Be willing to learn new things. Be able to assimilate new information quickly. Be able to get along with and work with other people."
"I never went into physics or the astronaut corps to become a role model. But after my first flight, it became clear to me that I was one. And I began to understand the importance of that to people. Young girls need to see role models in whatever careers they may choose, just so they can picture themselves doing those jobs someday. You can't be what you can't see."
"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."
"The view of earth is absolutely spectacular, and the feeling of looking back and seeing your planet as a planet is just an amazing feeling. It's a totally different perspective, and it makes you appreciate, actually, how fragile our existence is."
"The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter."
"Our future lies with today's kids and tomorrow's space exploration."
"Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in."
Sally was a member of American Physical Society.
Ride married Steven Alan Hawley, an astronaut, on July 26, 1982. Later, in 1987, the couple divorced. Also, from 1985 until her death in 2012, Sally had relationships with Tam O'Shaughnessy, a children's science writer and former professional tennis player, who also co-founded, with Sally Ride, the science education company Sally Ride Science.
He was a professor of political science at Santa Monica College.
She acted as a volunteer counselor at a women's correctional facility.
She was a Presbyterian minister.
O’Shaughnessy was a romantic partner of Sally Ride.
