Sally Ride
By: Lilly Harkins
Sally Ride
Sally's Life
Death Year: July 23, 2012, After a 17 month-long battle with Pancreatic Cancer
Age: 61
From: Los Angeles, California
Education: 1978 received a Ph. D for Physics
Major Accomplishments: First American women to travel to space, Investigated the Columbia Shuttle incident, and NASA named the site where the Twin Gravity Probes hit the moon in her honor.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/Features/sally_ride_remembered.html
"Sally Ride broke barriers with grace and professionalism-- and literally changed the face of America's space program," said Bolden.
Joining NASA!
Ride in her first Space trip!
Was the Office of Mission Speacilist, from their window they watched the remote manipulator arm, as it rises to lift another satalite into orbit.
Ride comes up with the idea!
Ride came up with the idea in 1990. Earth Kam is controlled by middle school students around the country.