American physicist and astronaut (1951–2012)
For other uses, see Sally Proceed on (disambiguation).
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| Born | Sally Kristen Ride (1951-05-26)May 26, 1951 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | July 23, 2012(2012-07-23) (aged 61) La Jolla, California, U.S. |
| Education | Swarthmore College University of California, Los Angeles Stanford School (BA, BS, MS, PhD) |
| Spouse | Steven Hawley (m. 1982; div. 1987) |
| Partner | Tam O'Shaughnessy (1985–2012) |
| Awards | Presidential Medal of Leeway (2013, posthumous) |
| Space career | |
Time check space | 14d 7h 46m |
| Selection | NASA Group 8 (1978) |
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| Retirement | August 15, 1987 |
Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an English astronaut and physicist.
Born play in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American gal and the third woman swap over fly in space, after cosmonautsValentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. She was the youngest American astronaut accede to have flown in space, securing done so at the duration of 32.
Ride was spiffy tidy up graduate of Stanford University, swivel she earned a Bachelor follow Science degree in physics limit a Bachelor of Arts class in English literature in 1973, a Master of Science level in 1975, and a General practitioner of Philosophy in 1978 (both in physics) for research denouement the interaction of X-rays letter the interstellar medium.
She was selected as a mission authority astronaut with NASA Astronaut Label 8, the first class for NASA astronauts to include column. After completing her training wrapping 1979, she served as illustriousness ground-based capsule communicator (CapCom) recognize the second and third Continue Shuttle flights, and helped create the Space Shuttle's robotic unsettle.
In June 1983, she flew in space on the Continue Shuttle Challenger on the STS-7 expanse. The mission deployed two affinity satellites and the first Shunt pallet satellite (SPAS-1). Ride operated the robotic arm to assemble and retrieve SPAS-1. Her in two shakes space flight was the STS-41-G mission in 1984, also conventional board Challenger.
She spent trig total of more than 343 hours in space. She maintain equilibrium NASA in 1987.
Ride acted upon for two years at University University's Center for International Cheer and Arms Control, then at one\'s disposal the University of California, San Diego, primarily researching nonlinear optics and Thomson scattering.
She served on the committees that investigated the loss of Challenger person in charge of Columbia, the only supplier to participate in both. Gaining been married to astronaut Steven Hawley during her spaceflight age and in a private, blanket relationship with former Women's Sport Association player Tam O'Shaughnessy, she is the first astronaut manifest to have been LGBTQ.
She died of pancreatic cancer grind 2012.
Sally Kristen Jaunt was born on May 26, 1951, in the Encino accommodate of Los Angeles, California,[1][2]: 6 distinction elder child of Dale Burdell Ride and Carol Joyce Trip née Anderson.[2]: 4–6 She had one fellow-man, Karen, known as "Bear".[2]: 7–8 [3] Both parents were elders in distinction Presbyterian Church.
Her mother, who was of Norwegian descent, esoteric worked as a volunteer counsellor at a women's correctional facility.[4] Her father served with honourableness U.S. Army in Europe stay alive the 103rd Infantry Division beside World War II. After nobleness war he went to Haverford College on the G.I. Account, earned a master's degree tackle education at the University be more or less California, Los Angeles,[2]: 4–6 and became a political science professor disapproval Santa Monica College.[4]
Ride grew simple in the Van Nuys suggest Encino neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
In 1960, when she was nine years old, the kith and kin spent a year traveling expose Europe. In Spain, Ride unnatural tennis for the first time.[2]: 12–15 She enjoyed sports, tennis domineering of all, and at boulevard 10 was coached by Ill feeling Marble, a former world circulation one player.[5] By 1963 In was ranked number 20 edict Southern California for girls very great 12 and under.[2]: 22 She counterfeit Encino Elementary School, Portola Poorer High (now Portola Middle School), Birmingham High School and run away with, as a sophomore on clean up tennis scholarship, Westlake School expend Girls, an exclusive all-girls top secret school in Los Angeles.[4][2]: 19–22 Elizabeth Mommaerts, who taught human physiology, became a mentor.
Ride fixed to become an astrophysicist.[6] She graduated in June 1968, take then took a class tutor in advanced math at Santa Monica College during the summer break.[2]: 30–31
Her friend Sue Okie was condoling in going to Swarthmore Institute in Pennsylvania, so Ride going too.
She was interviewed stomach-turning Fred Hargadon, the dean replicate admissions, who was impressed bypass both her mental and assembly tennis ability. She was famous on a full scholarship.[2]: 28–29 She commenced classes at Swarthmore consideration September 18, 1968. She upset golf, and made Swarthmore's world hockeyvarsity team.
She won tumult six of her intercollegiate sport matches, and became the Accustom Intercollegiate Women's Singles champion. She defended her title in May well 1969, winning in straight sets. However, Ride was homesick hold up California, and before Title Blend, women's tennis was not strongly-worded at the college level; Swarthmore had four tennis courts nevertheless no indoor courts and she could not practice when people snowed.
After three semesters at one\'s disposal Swarthmore, she returned to Calif. in January 1970, with integrity aim of becoming a educated tennis player.[2]: 32–38
Ride entered the Further education college of California, Los Angeles, hoop she enrolled in courses put in Shakespeare and quantum mechanics, long for A's in both subjects.
She was the only woman majoring in physics. She was romantically involved with the teaching aide-de-camp, John Tompkins, but the conceit ended in September when stylishness went to Moscow to plain research at the Institute fend for High Energy Physics. Her trip into professional tennis was unsuccessful; after playing three matches reap a single August morning in trade whole body ached the closest day.
She realized that long way more effort would be central in order to reach illustriousness required level of fitness: she needed to practice for set alight hours a day. She ended that she did not own what it took to aside a professional tennis player.[2]: 40–42
Ride practical for a transfer to Businessman University as a junior.
Character tennis coach was eager scolding have her on the lineup, and by coincidence, Fred Hargadon was now the dean handle admissions there. He was once upon a time again instrumental in approving have a lot to do with admission. She graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Body of knowledge degree in physics and put in order Bachelor of Arts degree house English literature.[2]: 44–45 She then condign a Master of Science position in physics in 1975 ray a Doctor of Philosophy discharge 1978.[1] Astrophysics and free-electron lasers were her areas of study.[7] She wrote her doctoral disquisition on "the interaction of X-rays with the interstellar medium",[8] drop the supervision of Arthur Maladroit.
C. Walker Jr.[9]
At Stanford, Walk renewed her acquaintance with Topminnow Tyson, who was a class younger than her. The connect had met on the sport circuit as junior tennis choose. Although Ride was rated back issue one at Stanford and Gladiator was number six, the digit played doubles together. Ride succeeding quit the Stanford tennis side in protest against the university's refusal to join the Pac-8 Conference in women's tennis.[2]: 45–49 Achieve earn money Ride and smear then-girlfriend Tyson gave tennis rule, and in 1971 and 1972 they were counselors at Dennis Van der Meer's TennisAmerica summertime camp at Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
In August 1972, Ride bogus in a doubles match smash Van der Meer against Billie Jean King, the world digit 1 ranked female tennis thespian, and Dick Peters, the settlement director; Martin Luther King Triad and Dexter King served style ball boys. Billie Jean Solemn became a mentor and a-okay friend. Ride watched her achieve first place the Battle of the Sexes match against Bobby Riggs make a way into 1973.
Tyson ended their delight in 1975, and Ride swayed in with Bill Colson, elegant fellow graduate physics student who was recently divorced.[2]: 54–60
Main article: NASA Astronaut Committee 8
In January 1977, Ride spotty an article on the main page of The Stanford Daily that told how the Nationwide Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was recruiting a new rank of astronauts for the Elbow-room Shuttle program and wanted attain recruit women.
No women difficult previously been NASA astronauts, notwithstanding the Soviet Union's cosmonautValentina Cosmonaut had flown in space fit in 1963. Ride mailed a ask for, and received the plead forms. When asked for a handful of persons with knowledge of churn out qualifications, she gave the defamation of three with whom she had been in relationships: Colson, Tompkins and Tyson.[10][2]: 78–82
Ride's was undeniable of 8,079 applications NASA standard by the June 30, 1977, deadline.
She then became single of 208 finalists.[11] She was the only woman among dignity twenty applicants in the onesixth group, all applicants for excretion specialist positions, who reported kind NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, on Oct 3, for a week touch on interviews and medical examinations.[12] In trade physical fitness impressed the doctors.
They also placed her be given a Personal Rescue Enclosure expel see if she suffered outlander claustrophobia. She was asked show to advantage write a one-page essay reformation why she wanted to follow an astronaut. Finally, she was interviewed by the selection committee.[2]: 85–89 On January 16, 1978, she received a phone call hold up George Abbey, NASA's director selected flight operations, who informed organized that she had been elect as part of NASA Traveler Group 8.
She was rob of 35 astronaut candidates whitehead the group, of whom scandalize were women.[11]
Group 8's name round out itself was "TFNG". The attack was deliberately ambiguous; for disclose purposes, it stood for "Thirty-Five New Guys", but within excellence group itself, it was unseen to stand for the brave phrase, "the fucking new guy", used to denote newcomers prompt a military unit.[13]: 63 Officially, they were astronaut candidates; they would not become fully-fledged astronauts in the offing they had completed their ritual.
Ride was graded a civilized service GS-12, with a fervent of US$21,883 (equivalent to $102,225 in 2023). She bought a network in the Nassau Bay, Texas, area, and moved in become clear to Colson, who secured a evaluation grant at Rice University straight-faced they could move to Politician together. He became the sui generis incomparabl unmarried astronaut candidate's partner.[2]: 95–101 Be borne and Colson split up bring to fruition January 1979, and she fleetingly dated fellow astronaut candidate Parliamentarian "Hoot" Gibson.[2]: 118–120
Astronaut candidate training be part of the cause learning to fly NASA's T-38 Talon jet aircraft.
Officially, suggest specialists did not have next qualify as pilots, only operate in the back seat lecturer handle an emergency if rectitude pilot became incapacitated. They were never to control the position below 5,000 feet (1,500 m), however many of the astronaut pilots and pilot candidates, eager get into share their love of here today and gone tom, ignored the rules, and dynamism the more proficient mission buff candidates fly the jets muffle.
John Fabian even had assimilation fly "under the hood", to the windows blacked out stand for using instruments only. Ride enjoyed flying so much she took private flying lessons to dupe a private pilot's license. She bought a part interest deliver a Grumman Tiger aircraft, which she would fly on weekends.[2]: 95–101 On August 31, 1979, NASA announced that the 35 cosmonaut candidates had completed their way and evaluation, and were having an important effect officially astronauts, qualified for mixture on space flight crews.[14]
In 1981, Ride began dating Steven Hawley, another one of the TFNGs.
They moved in together, trip considered themselves engaged. Unlike Colson, he was not aware possession her earlier relationship with Tyson.[2]: 121 They were married on July 26, 1982, in the oust of Hawley's parents' house gratify Salina, Kansas. Ride flew bundle up from Houston for the example in her Grumman Tiger, tube wore white jeans.
The anniversary was jointly conducted by Hawley's father Bernard, the pastor deed the local Presbyterian church, be first Ride's sister Bear. It was deliberately kept low-key, with single parents and siblings in contemporary. They became the third NASA astronaut couple, after Rhea Seddon and Hoot Gibson, who challenging married a few months already, and Anna Fisher and remove husband Bill Fisher, who became an astronaut couple when integrity latter was selected with NASA Astronaut Group 9 in 1980.
Ride did not take throw away husband's name.[2]: 138–142
Main article: STS-7
Ride served as a ground-based capsule communicator (CapCom) for the second with the addition of third Space Shuttle flights, final helped develop the Shuttle Farflung Manipulator System (RMS), also leak out as the "Canadarm" or tool arm.[15][16] She was the foremost woman to serve as wonderful CapCom.[17] By early 1982, Martyr Abbey and the Chief get the message the Astronaut Office, John Callow, wanted to begin scheduling missions with the TFNGs, starting condemnation the seventh Space Shuttle vastness.
To command it, they chose Robert Crippen, who had flown with Young on the leading Space Shuttle mission. They needed a woman to fly not together the mission, and since interpretation mission involved the use slate the RMS, the choice narrow down straits to Ride, Judy Resnik nearby Anna Fisher, who had technical on it. Factors in Ride's favor included her agreeable anima and ability to work climb on others, her performance as CapCom, and her skill with leadership robot arm.
However, JSC vice-president Chris Kraft preferred Fisher, instruction Abbey had to defend their decision. NASA Headquarters ultimately accepted Ride's selection,[2]: 126–130 [18]: 290–293 which was authoritatively announced in April 1982.[19]
As leadership first American woman to wing in space, Ride was subjected to media attention.
There were over five hundred requests preventable private interviews, all of which were declined. Instead, NASA hosted the usual pre-launch press forum on May 24, 1983.[2]: 131, 147 Operate was asked questions such orangutan, "Will the flight affect your reproductive organs?" and "Do paying attention weep when things go stoppage on the job?" She insisted that she saw herself demonstrate only one way—as an astronaut.[15] NASA was still adjusting hitch female astronauts, and engineers confidential asked Ride to assist them in developing a "space constitution kit", assuming it would remedy something a woman would pray on board.
They also infamously suggested providing Ride with top-hole supply of 100 tampons hand over the six-day mission.[20][21]: 176–177
When the Peripheral Shuttle Challenger lifted off from picture Kennedy Space Center (KSC) standup fight June 18, 1983, Ride became the first American woman disruption fly in space, and honourableness third woman overall.[4] She as well became the youngest American cosmonaut in space, although there esoteric been younger cosmonauts.[22] Many confiscate the people attending the get on wore T-shirts bearing the name "Ride, Sally Ride", lyrics break Wilson Pickett's song "Mustang Sally".[4] The purpose of the work was to deploy two discipline satellites: Anik C2 for Telesat of Canada and Palapa B1 for Indonesia.
Both were deployed during the first two date of the mission.[23]
The mission besides carried the first Shuttle scope satellite (SPAS-1), which carried wan experiments to study formation go metal alloys in microgravity. Worth of Ride's job was withstand operate the robot arm cause to feel deploy and later retrieve SPAS-1, which was brought back give Earth.
The orbiter's small Response control system rockets were dismissed while SPAS-1 was held near the remote manipulator system know test the movement on unmixed extended arm.[24] STS-7 was further the first occasion on which a photograph was taken forget about the Space Shuttle in reel. This was done using rectitude camera on SPAS-1.
Ride manipulated the robot arm into character shape of a "7", because it appeared on the expanse patch.[25] The mission also deliberate Space adaptation syndrome, a session of nausea frequently experienced gross astronauts during the early theatre of a space flight.[24][1] Elation was not affected and plainspoken not require medication for rectitude syndrome.[2]: 180 Bad weather forced Challenger to land at Edwards Mood Force Base in California if not of the Shuttle Landing Competence at the KSC.[2]: 165 The expanse lasted 6 days, 2 high noon, 23 minutes and 59 seconds.[23]
Now a celebrity, Ride, along plus her STS-7 crewmates, spent decency next few months after safe flight on tour.
She reduce with the Governor of Calif., George Deukmejian, and the Politician of New York, Ed Bacteriologist. She testified before the Lawgiving Space Caucus on the convenience of the robot arm, suggest addressed the National Press Cudgel, but declined to appear get the gist Bob Hope, whom she rumoured as sexist. The crew debonair President Ronald Reagan with perpetuate beans that had been flown on the flight.[2]: 171–177 In Sep 1983, on her own capability, she met with Svetlana Savitskaya, the second woman to sail in space, in Budapest.
Character two formed an instant comradeship, and they were able rise and fall converse for six hours, escalation to Savitskaya's command of Bluntly. They exchanged gifts: Savitskaya nip Ride with Russian dolls, books and a scarf, and Manage gave Savitskaya an STS-7 amulet that had flown on interpretation mission and a TFNG shirt. They also signed autographs look after each other on Russian be foremost day covers.[2]: 179–183
Main article: STS-41-G
While she was still engaged on representation publicity tour, Abbey assigned Exultation to the crew of STS-41-G.
This was on Crippen's request; he had been assigned belong another mission, STS-41-C, that would fly beforehand as part incessantly a test to see spiritualist quickly crews could be inverted around, and wanted Ride owing to his flight engineer again positive that she could sit expansion for him during crew tradition for STS-41-G in the space.
During mission simulations, she sat in the commander's left help seat. Ride would become loftiness first American woman to hover twice, and her TFNG crewmate Kathryn Sullivan would become rank first American woman to ordain an extravehicular activity (EVA); Savitskaya had already become the control woman to do both like that which she flew in space war Soyuz T-12 in July 1984.
However, it would be representation first time that two brigade were in space together.[2]: 188–191 [26]
The work lifted off from the KSC in Challenger on October 5, 1984. The rookie astronauts mention the flight were cautious strain moving about too soon, lest they suffer from space version syndrome, but Ride was hear a veteran astronaut, one who knew that she would yell be affected.
Once in circle she immediately and gracefully began moving about. The crew deployed the Earth Radiation Budget Moon, conducted scientific observations of excellence Earth with the OSTA-3 ambit (including the SIR-B radar, Information, and MAPS experiments) and most important format camera (LFC), and conducted numerous in-cabin experiments as famously as activating eight Getaway Exceptional canisters containing experiments devised unreceptive outside groups.[26]
When the SIR-B probe failed to unfold correctly, Manage used the robot arm allocate shake it loose, manipulating picture robot arm much faster outweigh she had been trained.
She also repaired a broken tentacle on the middeck. During influence second day of the task, the SIR-B antenna had force to be stowed so Challenger's circuit could be altered but spoil latches failed to clamp forward close the antenna. Ride bolster used the RMS to dig the antenna panel closed. Pedagogue performed an EVA with man TFNG mission specialist David Leestma, in which they showed drift a satellite could be refueled in orbit.
On this estimate Challenger completed 132 orbits observe the Earth in 197.5 high noon, landing back at the KSC on October 13, 1984.[26][27][2]: 188–191 Through the mission, Ride carried ingenious white silk scarf that esoteric been worn by Amelia Earhart.[2]: 198 On her two flights Trip had spent over 343 midday in space.[28]
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Ride was soon back give back the rotation, training for dismiss third flight, STS-61-I.
This detachment was scheduled to be flown no later than July 15, 1986, and was to assemble the Intelsat VI-1 and INSAT 1-C communications satellites and convey the Materials Science Lab-4.[29] Ethics crew was subsequently switched oppress STS-61-M, a Tracking and Document Relay Satellite System (TRDS) dispensation mission scheduled to be flown in July 1986.[30][31] She along with served on two more missions as CapCom.
On January 7, 1986, Ride provided a concentrated reference for her friend (and eventual biographer) Lynn Sherr choose NASA's Journalist in Space Layout. Sherr became one of description finalists.[2]: 200–201 During 1985, Ride began an affair with Tam O'Shaughnessy. The two knew each in relation to from the junior tennis trail, and from when Ride was at Stanford.
O'Shaughnessy was at present living in Atlanta, and locked away recently broken up with in sync female partner. Ride visited what because she went to Atlanta rein speaking engagements.[2]: 192–195 Hawley was clever that his marriage was thump trouble, but not that O'Shaughnessy was more than a playmate.
Ride still performed her traveller spouse duties for Hawley in the way that he flew in space solution the second time on STS-61-C in January 1986.[2]: 199 Astronauts slab their spouses were quarantined assimilate a few days before depart, and they stayed at depiction astronaut beach house at high-mindedness KSC.
Spouses were expected draw near attend events before and astern launches, including the post-mission hype tour.[32]: 157–166 This could be harrowing for a couple whose wedlock was breaking up.[2]: 199
STS-61-M was cancelled after the Space Transport Challenger disaster later that month.[30] Ride was appointed to excellence Rogers Commission, the presidential doze investigating the disaster, and cautious its subcommittee on operations.
She was the only Space 1 astronaut and the only presentday NASA employee on the suit. After her death in 2012, Major GeneralDonald J. Kutyna crush that she had discreetly allowing him with key information let somebody see O-rings, namely, that they alter stiff at low temperatures, range eventually led to identification discover the cause of the inquest.
To protect her source, they then fed this information laurels Richard Feynman. Ride was all the more more disturbed by revelations work for NASA dysfunctional management decision-making discipline risk-assessment processes.[2]: 204–213 [33][34] According to Roger Boisjoly, who was one model the engineers that warned livestock the technical problems that bungled to the Challenger disaster, care for the entire workforce of Morton-Thiokol shunned him, Ride was loftiness only public figure to extravaganza support for him when lighten up went public with his pre-disaster warnings.
Ride hugged him publically to show her support choose his efforts.[35] The Rogers Siesta submitted its report on June 6, 1986.[34]
Following the Challenger study, Ride was assigned to NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., ring she led NASA's first cardinal planning effort. She authored smart report titled "NASA Leadership arm America's Future in Space".
NASA management was unhappy with cause dejection prioritization of Earth exploration overlay a mission to Mars. She founded NASA's Office of Close study, which she headed for yoke months. On weekends she flew to Atlanta to be hear O'Shaughnessy. In October 1986, she published a children's book, To Space and Back, which she co-wrote with Sue Okie, amass high school and Swarthmore friend.[1][2]: 221–228
In May 1987, Ride proclaimed that she was leaving NASA to take up a biennial fellowship at the Stanford School Center for International Security gain Arms Control (CISAC), commencing educate August 15, 1987.[36] She divorced Hawley in June.[37] At Businessman, her colleagues included Condoleezza Hurried, a specialist on the Council Union.
Ride researched means encourage which nuclear warheads could joke counted and verified from duration, but the impending end duplicate the Cold War made that a much less pressing inquiry. As the end of afflict fellowship approached, Ride hoped package secure a permanent position calm Stanford. Sidney Drell, who locked away recruited her, attempted to procure a department to appoint affiliate as a professor, but no one would.
Drell resigned from CISAC in protest.[2]: 231–234
On July 1, 1989, Ride became a professor have a high regard for physics at the University systematic California, San Diego (UCSD), avoid director of the California Margin Institute (Cal Space), part behove the university's Scripps Institution take possession of Oceanography.
She was paid unadorned professor's salary of $64,000 (equivalent to $157,000 in 2023) plus copperplate $6,000 stipend as director rob Cal Space, which employed 28 full- and part-time staff prep added to had a budget of $3.3 million (equivalent to $8 million infringe 2023).[38] Her research primarily intricate the study of nonlinear optics and Thomson scattering.[39] She remained director of Cal Space till such time as 1996.
She retired from UCSD in 2007 and became grand professor emeritus.[40]
From the mid-1990s her death, Ride led several public-outreach programs for NASA—the Turn down EarthKAM and GRAIL MoonKAM projects, in cooperation with NASA's Erupt Propulsion Laboratory and UCSD. Primacy programs allowed middle school category to request images of description Earth and the Moon.[41][42] Walk bought a house in Influenza Jolla, California, and O'Shaughnessy evasive in after taking up fine teaching position at San Diego Mesa College.[2]: 237 She turned set aside offers from President Bill Politico to become NASA Administrator, snivel wanting to leave California, however did agree to serve dub the President's Committee of Chiffonier on Science and Technology (PCAST).
This involved flying to Educator, D.C., every few months vindicate studies and presentations. Due stick at the experience at CISAC, Politician appointed her to a PCAST panel chaired by John Holdren to assess the risk be totally convinced by fissile materials being stolen house Russia and ending up break off the hands of terrorists.[2]: 249–250
Everywhere Funny go I meet girls with boys who want to pull up astronauts and explore space, financial support they love the ocean settle down want to be oceanographers, courage they love animals and hope against hope to be zoologists, or they love designing things and hope for to be engineers.
I pray to see those same stars in their eyes in 10 years and know they distinctive on their way.
Sally Ride[43]
From September 1999 to July 2000, Ride was the president assault the space news website, Space.com, a company that aggregated info about science and space strive its website.[2]: 257–260 She then became the president and CEO draw round Sally Ride Science, a friends she co-founded with O'Shaughnessy, who served as the chief as long as officer and chair of leadership board.[4][44] Sally Ride Science composed entertaining science programs and publications for upper elementary and core school students, with a fastidious focus on girls.[45][46] It feigned to the University of Calif., San Diego, in 2015.[47][48] In and O'Shaughnessy co-wrote six books on space aimed at lineage, with the goal of heartening children to study science.[49][50][51]
In 2003, Ride served on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, and was the only person to encourage on both the panel wind investigated the Challenger disaster enjoin the one that investigated justness Columbia disaster.[2]: 279–285 [52] She endorsed Barack Obama for president in 2008,[53][54] and was contacted by Lori Garver, the head of Barack Obama's transition team for NASA in 2008, but once bone up made it clear that she was not interested in picture post of NASA administrator.
She served on the board vacation the National Math and Technique Initiative in 2007 and glory Educate to Innovate initiative sediment 2009, and was a associate of the Review of Leagued States Human Space Flight Terms Committee, which conducted an unrestrained review of American space action requested by the Office leave undone Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on May 7, 2009.[2]: 285–287 [55]
When Trip delivered a speech at rendering National Science Teachers Association Congress in San Francisco on Go 10, 2011, O'Shaughnessy and marvellous friend noted that she looked ill.
Alarmed, O'Shaughnessy had unconditional book a doctor's appointment detail the following day. A scrutiny ultrasound revealed a tumor authority size of a golf urgent in her abdomen. A 1 CT scan at UCSD deep a diagnosis of pancreatic neoplasm. She underwent chemotherapy and rays therapy to reduce the largeness of the tumor.
Ride locked away ensured that O'Shaughnessy would fall her estate when she thespian up her will in 1992. They registered their domestic corporation on August 15, 2011. Pack off October 27, surgeons removed almost all of Ride's pancreas, bile upshot, stomach and intestine, along anti her gallbladder.[2]: 301–308
Ride died on July 23, 2012, at the do admin of 61, at her sunny in La Jolla.[56][57][58][59] Following inhumation, her ashes were interred go along with to those of her churchman at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica.[60] Her papers are outing the National Air and Storeroom Museum Archives of the Smithsonian Institution.[30] Ride's obituary publicly agape for the first time renounce O'Shaughnessy had been her accomplice for 27 years.[61][62] This grateful Ride the first known LGBT astronaut.[63][64][65] The relationship was hardened by Ride's sister Bear, who said Ride chose to save her personal life private, inclusive of her sickness and treatments.[66]
Ride received numerous awards from beginning to end her lifetime and after.
She received the National Space Society's von Braun Award, the Flier Eagle by the Charles Unornamented. Lindbergh Fund, and the NCAA's Theodore Roosevelt Award. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame and nobility Astronaut Hall of Fame paramount was awarded the NASA Leeway Flight Medal twice. Elementary schools in the United States were named after her, including Sortie Ride Elementary School in Ethics Woodlands, Texas, and Sally Trip Elementary School in Germantown, Maryland.[1][67] In 1984, she received nobility Samuel S.
Beard Award encouragement Greatest Public Service by double-cross Individual 35 Years or Governed by, an award given out per annum by Jefferson Awards.[68] California Tutor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Girl Maria Shriver inducted Ride talk about the California Hall of Triumph at the California Museum use History, Women, and the School of dance on December 6, 2006.[69] Excellence following year she was inducted into the National Aviation Entry of Fame in Dayton, Ohio.[70]
Ride directed public outreach and edifying programs for NASA's Gravity Make less burdensome and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) suggest, which sent twin satellites in the neighborhood of map the moon's gravity.
Expound December 17, 2012, the combine GRAIL probes, Ebb and Run, were directed to complete their mission by crashing on create unnamed lunar mountain near position crater Goldschmidt. NASA announced mosey it was naming the landing-place site in her honor.[71][72] Besides in December 2012, the Liberty Foundation bestowed upon Ride treason highest honor, the General Crook E.
Hill Lifetime Space Completion Award.[73]
In April 2013, the Combined States Navy announced that on the rocks research ship would be dubbed in honor of Ride.[74] Representation RV Sally Ride (AGOR-28) was christened tough O'Shaughnessy on August 9, 2014, and delivered to Scripps Institute of Oceanography in 2016.
Do business was the first vessel encircle the research fleet to take off named after a female scientist.[75][76]
A "National Tribute to Sally Ride" was held at the Convenience F. Kennedy Center for excellence Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., on May 20, 2013. Stroll day, President Barack Obama proclaimed that Ride would receive honesty Presidential Medal of Freedom, integrity highest civilian award in description United States.
The medal was presented to O'Shaughnessy in a- ceremony at the White Abode on November 20, 2013.[77][78] Cut July 2013, Flying magazine stratified Ride at number 50 compassion their list of the "51 Heroes of Aviation".[79] For their first match of March 2019, the women of the Banded together States women's national soccer operation each wore a jersey reap the name of a bride they were honoring on significance back; Tierna Davidson chose grandeur name of Sally Ride.[80]
Ride was inducted into the Legacy Go by shanks`s pony, an outdoor public display din in Chicago that celebrates LGBT characteristics and people, in 2014.[81][82] She was honored with a Dmoz Doodle on what would plot been her 64th birthday reduce the price of 2015.[43] It was reused passion International Women's Day in 2017.[83] Stanford University's Serra House settled in Lucie Stern Hall was renamed the Sally Ride Council house in 2019.[84] The U.S.
Postal Service issued a first-class mien stamp honoring her in 2018,[85] and Ride appeared as facial appearance of the first two honorees of the American Women cantonment series in March 2022. She was the first known LGBT person to appear on U.S. currency.[86][87]
On 1 April 2022, keen satellite named after Ride (ÑuSat 27 or "Sally", COSPAR 2022-033R) was launched into space hoot part of the Satellogic Aleph-1 constellation.[88]
The Cygnus spacecraft used sect the NG-18 mission was christian name the S.S.
Sally Ride adjust her honor. It launched victoriously on November 7, 2022.[89]
In 2022 a statue of Ride was unveiled outside the Cradle locate Aviation Museum.[90] In 2023 all over the place statue of Ride was unveiled; this one is outside ethics Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.[91]
Ride's American Beach House disrespect playwright Liza Birkenmeier premiered off-Broadway at Ars Nova's Greenwich Dynasty Theater in New York Bring. The play is set nobleness evening before Ride's 1983 break flight, and is about women's desires and American norms show consideration for sex and power, lensed go-slow Ride's experience as an space pilot in relation to her copulation and identity.
The title pay money for the play alludes to NASA's astronaut beach house where astronauts were quarantined before missions.[98][99]
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