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Sally Ride was born on May 26, 1951. In Los Angeles, California.
Recognized by beign an american educator, physicist, astronaut and scientist. -
She received bachelor's degrees in physics and English in 1973.
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She received a master's degree in physics and a Ph.D. in 1978.
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She got married with the astronaut Steve Hawley.
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Aboard the space shuttle Challenger, Sally became in the first american woman in the space. As a mission specialist, she helped deploy satellites and worked other projects. She returned to Earth on June 24 of the same year.
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Sally Ride and Steve Hawley divorce after only a few years. They had no kids, and Sally Ride did not marry again.
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After NASA, 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.
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She started her own company to create educational programs and products known as Sally Ride Science to help inspire girls and young women to pursue their interests in science and math.
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She was also inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame and the Astronaut Hall of Fame at the Kennedy Space Center.
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Sally Ride died at the age of 61, following a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer,
