Sally
Kristen Ride Time Line
May 26, 1951: Sally Kristen Ride is born in Los Angeles, California.
October 4, 1957: The Soviet Union launches the satellite Sputnik I into orbit, spurring the United States to try and catch up in the “Space Race.”
July 29, 1958: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the national Aeronautics and Space Act, creating NASA.
April 12, 1958: Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union becomes the first human in space.
May 5, 1961: Alan Shepard becomes the first American can in space.
June 16, 1963: Valentina Tereshkova of the Soviet Union becomes the first woman in space.
1968: Sally graduates from the Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles.
January 3, 1972: NASA’s administrator says that both men and women will fly on the space shuttles that the agency plans to build.
1973: Sally graduates from Stanford with BA in English and a BS in physics.
1975: Sally receives a master’s degree in physics from Stanford.
January 16, 1978; NASA announces its new class of thirty-five astronauts, including Sally and five other women.
1978: Sally receives a PhD in physics from Stanford.
August 19, 1982: Svetlana Svitskana of the Soviet Union becomes the second woman in space.
June 18-24, 1983: Sally becomes the first American Woman in space on STS-7.
October5-13, 1984: Sally returns to space on STS-41G.
January 28, 1896: The entire crew is lost when the Challenger explodes after takeoff.
1987: After serving on the Rogers Commission and publishing her own report on NASA’s future, Sally retires from the space agency to teach at Stanford.
1989: Sally becomes a professor of physics and he director of CalSpace at the University of California, San Diego.
2001: With Tam O’Shaughnessy and other, Sally founds Imaginary Lines, Inc.
2003: Sally serves on the panel investigating the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its crew on February 1.
September 2010: Sally helps to create Change the Equation, a nonprofit group that motivates businesses to get involved in STEM programs in their communities.
July 23, 2012: Sally dies of pancreatic cancer.
December 17, 2012: NASA names the lunar landing site of its two Grail (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) satellites after Sally.
November 20, 2013: Tam O’Shaughnessy accepts the presidential Medal of Freedom from president Obama on Sally’s behalf.
May 26, 1951: Sally Kristen Ride is born in Los Angeles, California.
October 4, 1957: The Soviet Union launches the satellite Sputnik I into orbit, spurring the United States to try and catch up in the “Space Race.”
July 29, 1958: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the national Aeronautics and Space Act, creating NASA.
April 12, 1958: Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union becomes the first human in space.
May 5, 1961: Alan Shepard becomes the first American can in space.
June 16, 1963: Valentina Tereshkova of the Soviet Union becomes the first woman in space.
1968: Sally graduates from the Westlake School for Girls in Los Angeles.
January 3, 1972: NASA’s administrator says that both men and women will fly on the space shuttles that the agency plans to build.
1973: Sally graduates from Stanford with BA in English and a BS in physics.
1975: Sally receives a master’s degree in physics from Stanford.
January 16, 1978; NASA announces its new class of thirty-five astronauts, including Sally and five other women.
1978: Sally receives a PhD in physics from Stanford.
August 19, 1982: Svetlana Svitskana of the Soviet Union becomes the second woman in space.
June 18-24, 1983: Sally becomes the first American Woman in space on STS-7.
October5-13, 1984: Sally returns to space on STS-41G.
January 28, 1896: The entire crew is lost when the Challenger explodes after takeoff.
1987: After serving on the Rogers Commission and publishing her own report on NASA’s future, Sally retires from the space agency to teach at Stanford.
1989: Sally becomes a professor of physics and he director of CalSpace at the University of California, San Diego.
2001: With Tam O’Shaughnessy and other, Sally founds Imaginary Lines, Inc.
2003: Sally serves on the panel investigating the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its crew on February 1.
September 2010: Sally helps to create Change the Equation, a nonprofit group that motivates businesses to get involved in STEM programs in their communities.
July 23, 2012: Sally dies of pancreatic cancer.
December 17, 2012: NASA names the lunar landing site of its two Grail (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) satellites after Sally.
November 20, 2013: Tam O’Shaughnessy accepts the presidential Medal of Freedom from president Obama on Sally’s behalf.