Sally Ride

By JJovine
  • Sally ride was born

    Sally ride was born

    Born May 26, 1951 in Lo Angeles California.
  • Graduation

    Graduation

    Sally ride graduates from Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles, California.
  • Bachelors degree

    Bachelors degree

    Recieves bachelors degree in physics and english from Stanford University
  • Master's Degree

    Master's Degree

    Receives master's degree in physics from Stanford University
  • Selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate

    Selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate

    Selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate one of six women among 35 trainees chosen
  • Becomes first American woman to fly in space

    Becomes first American woman to fly in space

    she was a specialist on STS-7, NASA's seventh shuttle mission, aboard the space shuttle Challenger

  • Flies on second space shuttle mission

    this mission lasted nine days. On that flight, she used the shuttle’s robotic arm to remove ice from the shuttle's exterior and to readjust a radar antenna.
  • Assigned to crew of third space shuttle flight, STS 61-M

    Assigned to crew of third space shuttle flight, STS 61-M

    Ride was assigned to a third shuttle mission, but her crew's training was cut short by the Challenger disaster in January 1986.
  • Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame

    Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame

  • Becomes a professor

    Becomes a professor

    Becomes professor of physics and director of the California Space Institute at the University of California San Diego

  • Sally Ride starts her own company

    Starts her own company, Sally Ride Science, to provide exciting science programs, events, and publications for upper elementary and middle school students
  • Inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame at Kennedy Space Center

    Inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame at Kennedy Space Center

  • Awarded the NCAA's Theodore Roosevelt "Teddy" Award

  • Inducted into the California Hall of Fame

  • Inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame

  • Awarded the 2012 National Space Grant Distinguished Service Award

  • Sally Ride's date of death

    Ride died on July 23, 2012 at the age of 61, following a battle with pancreatic cancer.

  • Medal of Freedom

    Posthumously awarded 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor

  • Named a Stanford Engineering Hero