About Sally Ride:
Sally Kristen Ride was an American physicist and astronaut. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983. She remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32. After flying twice on the Orbiter Challenger, she left NASA in 1987. She worked for two years at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, then at the University of California, San Diego as a professor of physics, primarily researching nonlinear optics and Thomson scattering. She served on the committees that investigated the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters, the only person to participate on both.
I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
Sally RideThe space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
Sally RideIt's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.
Sally Ride