today on my girl heroes i'm going to
tell you about amazing Sally Ride was
not only the first American woman in
space but he was the youngest American
to ever go into space and school
Sally studied physics and when she
decided to become an astronaut
she wouldn't take no for an answer in
the late nineteen seventies which was
back when my dad was still a kid NASA
took out a University newspaper ad
looking for people enjoying the space
program it probably said something like
space is great go see it up close
Sally applied and was chosen out of
eight thousand applicants she worked and
studied very hard at NASA and was picked
to go into space on the space shuttle
mission if you don't know what a space
shuttle was it was a spaceship that you
could blast off the earth with perform
complicated and important work in space
and fly back home
the really cool thing about the space
shuttle is that you could fly it into
space over and over again instead of
having to build a new one every time I
muni team 1983 a space shuttle
challenger lifted off from the kennedy
space center and Sally Ride became the
first American woman in space
she was in space for six days two hours
23 minutes and 59 seconds while she was
up there she worked on experiments at
least two satellites and was the first
woman to operate the giant robotic arm
on the space shuttle so we got to go
into space again on the same space
shuttle
on october 1984 and all she spent over
three hundred and forty three hours in
space that's more than two weeks she was
supposed to go to space again but there
was a horrible disaster and after 24
successful missions a space shuttle
Challenger exploded i get watch that
happen live on TV sitting in a classroom
at school he said people were crying at
their desks it must have been terrible
sally was asked to be a special member
of the group that investigated why it
happened so they could keep it from
happening again later Sally went on to
become a physics professor and the
director of the California is based
Institute after Sally died in 2012 the
US Navy named a research after her
it may not go into space but i know
sally would have liked it
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