Today (July 23, 2012) is the Memorial Day of the first American woman to go to space Sally Kristen Wright's.
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's Degree in 1975 and a Ph.D. 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 were 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 the 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, to encourage 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. Before 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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