Astronaut Sally Ride When Sally Ride was just 9 years old, her family toured Europe for entire year and then returned home to Encino,
California.
Once back at school, Sally wanted to be a winner in sports and at school. In her teens she was a
champion Junior Tennis Player. She was ranked number eighteen among the best young tennis players in the
country when she was 18. Sally always liked studying science. When she went to college, she studied
astrophysics. Astrophysics is the science of stars and planets. She liked great literature too. She graduated from
college with two degrees. The other degree was in English. She stayed longer in college and became Dr. Sally
Ride. She was a specialist in astrophysics. Sally was interested in joining NASA as an astronaut. She was chosen
as one of six women in the astronaut dass in 1978. She studied at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
She learned how to fly military jets as part of her training. In 1982 Sally Ride was selected to go on the second
challenger space flight. She would be the first American woman to go into space. Sally Ride spent six days in
space orbiting the Earth. Later Sally Ride said, "the thing that I'll remember most about the flight is that it was
fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun that I will ever have fun in my life."
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Sally Ride lived in Europe.
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