The first American woman to go to space is American physicist Sally Kristen Wright's birthday today (May 26, 1951).
Sally Kristen Ride was born on May 26, 1951 in Los Angeles, the eldest
child of Dale Purdell Ride and Carol Joyce Ride. Wright's mother, who is of
Norwegian descent, worked as a volunteer counselor at a women's correctional
facility. His father was a professor of political science at Santa Monica
College. Wright attended Portola Junior High School and later Birmingham High
School before graduating with a scholarship from a private Westlake girls'
school in Los Angeles. In addition to his interest in science, he was a
national tennis player. Ride attended Swarthmore College for three semesters.
He took physics courses at the University of California, Los Angeles. He then
entered Stanford University as a junior. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree
in English and Physics.
At Stanford, he earned a Masters Degree in 1975 and a PhD in Physics in
1978. At the same time he researched the interaction of X-rays with stellar
media. She researched specific areas of astrophysics and free electron lasers.
The first class of women to be selected as astronauts was selected as part of
the NASA Astronaut Group 8 in 1978. He applied after seeing an ad in a Stanford
student newspaper. He was one of 35 selected for more than 8,000 applications.
After training in 1979, he qualified to serve as a mission specialist. He served
as a ground-based capsule communicator (Capcom) for the second and third space
shuttle flights. He also helped create the space shuttle's "Canadarm"
robot arm
Before her first space flight, she was the subject of media attention
because of her gender. During a press conference, she asked, "Does the
flight affect your reproductive organs?" And "Do you cry when things
go wrong at work?" Despite this and the historical significance of travel,
Wright saw himself only as an astronaut in a way. On June 18, 1983, she became
the first American woman in space to become a crew member of the Space Shuttle
Challenger for STS-7. Many people who attended the launch wore T-shirts with
the words "Ride, Sally Ride." The mission is to deploy two
communications satellites and the first Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS-1),
carry out tests within the cargo bay, and test the DDRS satellite. SPAS-1 was
successfully tested, then recalled and brought back to Earth.
His second space flight was in 1984 on the SDS-41-G, Challenger dock. He
spent a total of 343 hours in space. In 1987, Wright left his post in
Washington, D.C., and worked at the Stanford University Center for
International Security and Weapons Control. In 1989, he became a professor of
physics at the University of California, San Diego, and director of the
California Space Agency. From his mid-1990s until his death, Ride led two
general-purpose projects for NASA's ISS Earthcom and Grail Moongam projects in
collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and UCSD. These programs
allowed middle school students to request images of the Earth and the Moon.
In 2003, she was asked to serve on the Columbia Accident Investigation
Board. He was president and CEO of Sally Ride Science, which he co-founded in
2001. It creates entertainment science programs and publications for upper and
middle school students, with a particular focus on women.
Ride wrote seven books on space targeted at children, with the aim of
encouraging children to study science. In 2008, the U.S. announced its
decision. Ride endorsed Barack Obama for president. He was a member of the
United States Manned Aerospace Planning Committee, an independent review
requested by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on May 7, 2009.
She was the first American woman to go to space. He flew twice in 1983 and 1984
in the Challenger spacecraft. Prior to this, women in the Soviet Union,
Valentina Tereshkova (1963), and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982) had gone to the
skies. Sally Kristen Wright died on July 23, 2012 at the age of 61 in her home
in La Jolla, California, suffering from pancreatic cancer. Following the
cremation, his ashes were laid by his father at the Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery
in Santa Monica.
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