The Life Of Sally Ride
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Women such as Harriet Quimby, the first licensed women pilot, and
Amelia Earheart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, were
unknowingly paving the way for other women, like Sally Ride, in the field
of women in science and aeronautics.
Sally Ride was born in Encino, California on May ....
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.... her Bachelor of Science in Physics. In 1975 she received her Masters
in Physics and a Ph.D. in 1978.
In 1977 she responded to an ad in the Stanford University newspaper
for NASA astronauts. She was originally looking for postdoctoral work in
astrophysics. Previously, astronauts had always been military pilots, but
now NASA wanted to hire scientists and technicians who could monitor the
complex technology of the shuttle. Prior to her application, no women had
ever been accepted into NAS ....
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