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Name: Sally Ride
Birth Date: May 26, 1951
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: astronaut, physicist, educator, businesswoman

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Biography of Sally Ride
2,132 words, approx. 7 pages
Sally Ride (born 1951) is best known as the first American woman sent into outer space. She also served the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in an advisory capacity, being the only astronaut chosen for President Ronald Reagan's...


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Sally Ride Summary
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Sally Ride Born May 26, 1951, Encino, California Sally Ride never dreamed she would be the first American woman to fly in space. Her career as an astronaut began in 1977, when she answered a newspaper ad placed by the National Aeronautics and Space...
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Sally Kristen Ride Summary
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1951- American Astronaut Sally Ride was the first American woman to fly in space, her accomplishment symbolizing the equal opportunities for women offered by astronautical careers. Although a Soviet woman had orbited the earth two decades previously,...
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Ride, Sally
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(born May 26, 1951, Encino, California, U.S.) American astronaut, the first American woman to travel into outer space. Only two other women preceded her: Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982), both from the former Soviet Union....
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Sally Ride Information
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Sally Kristen Ride (born May 26 1951) is an American former astronaut who in 1983 became the first American woman to reach outer space.[1][2] She was preceded by two Soviet women, Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982). At the time,...
 


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The Washington Post
Ride, Sally, Ride
08/28/1998: 3,221 words, approx. 11 pages
When they speak rapturously, it is about the smells: the dense perfume of lilacs. The tang of manure. The sweet prelude to a summer rain. What would normally be a drive through the country becomes a sensuous experience, with that lazy hawk gliding...
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Sporting News
Ride, Sally, ride
07/01/2005: 328 words, approx. 1 pages
FAN SCAPE A lifestyle guide for the dedicated nonathlete LEARN FROM THE PROS Who? Chris Carmichael, personal coach of six-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and founder and CEO of Carmichael Training Systems (trainright.com). What? July is Tour de...
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AP News
Ride, Fossett to join Aviation Hall
7/21/2007: 388 words, approx. 1 pages
A record-setting daredevil and the first American woman in space are among five people slated for induction Saturday to the National Aviation Hall of Fame.Steve Fossett, 63, of Beaver Creek, Colo., holds world records in ballooning and with powered aircraft.In 2002, he became the first...
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The New York Observer
Hillary's Girlhood
5/5/2006: 374 words, approx. 1 pages
Myrtle Cagle, astronaut trainee, circa 1961. The other day, when Hillary's claim that she wrote to NASA and was told in a responding letter that the space agency "didn't take girls" struck us as implausible and poorly calculated because obviously checkable, our interest waned at...
 


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