Sally ride biography video for kids
Learn about the physicist and astronaut, Sally Ride, who became the first American woman to fly in space.!
Who Was Sally Ride? (Grades 5-8)
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Sally Ride was the first American woman to fly in space.
She was the founder of Sally Ride Science and the Sally Ride Science Festivals. She liked to run and play tennis, volleyball and softball. Ride wrote several science books for children.
Video, we're going to learn all about Sally Ride, the first American woman to journey into space.
The books are about space exploration, Earth and the solar system.
Sally Ride was born May 26, 1951, in Los Angeles, Calif. After high school, she attended Stanford University in California. She earned bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees in physics.
Physics is the study of matter and energy and how they interact.
Sally Ride applied to be an astronaut in 1977.
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It was the first time that women were invited to apply to the astronaut program. Ride was a college student and saw an advertisement that NASA was looking for women astronauts. She was one of six women selected to the astronaut corps in 1978.
On June 18,1983, Sally Ride bec