What made Sally Ride well known is that she was an American civilian school teacher who was aboard the space shuttle called Challenger, which exploded 76 seconds into its flight, killing all aboard. As a civilian, her participation in the Challenger flight had been heavily publicized and more than the usual number of people were watching the lift off at the time. All seven people aboard perished in the Challenger Space Shuttle in 1986.
No woman has landed on the Moon, so Sally Ride, the well known astronaut, did not land on the Moon.
sally ride is alive today and is well alive.
Sally Ride made history in 1983, when she was the first American woman in space. After NASA, Sally Ride became the director of the California Space Institute at the University of California, San Diego, as well as a professor of physics at the school in 1989. Sally Ride is not only the first American woman in space but she is also the youngest person to ever be sent into orbit.
No; she's alive and well.
She didn't. She graduated form Stanford, and went on to grad school there, as well.
well she was born and raised in Russia but i don't know exactly where
Sally Ride graduated from Stanford University in 1973. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Ride later went on to complete her master's degree and doctorate in physics at Stanford as well.
Sally Fields is best known as an actress. Born in the US in 1946, Sally Fields has had a career encompassing singing, acting, directing, producing and screenwriting.
Sally Ride loved sports when she was a kid, as well as science. she dreamed of becoming a sports star, than decided schoolwork above it. She studied science, than found a newspaper add calling for astronauts.
Sally Ride was inspired to become an astronaut by her interest in science and space exploration, as well as her desire to break barriers for women in STEM fields. She was also motivated by the challenge and excitement of space travel.
In her early years Sally Lowenthal, better known as Sally Jessy Raphael, an American talk show host, known for her talk show program 'Sally' wore size 24.
Zero. She almost did one time, but that didn't go very well.