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July 23, 2012 (61 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Gemini
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Celebrities born on May 26
Born in 1951
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Sally Ride
Sally Kristen Ride was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman in space. She was the third woman in space overall, after USSR cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya. Ride remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space, having done so at the age of 32. After flying twice on the Orbiter Challenger, she left NASA in 1987. Ride worked for two years at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, then at the University of California, San Diego, primarily researching nonlinear optics and Thomson scattering. She served on the committees that investigated the Challenger and Columbia Space Shuttle disasters, the only person to participate in both.
BornSally Kristen Ride, May 26, 1951, Encino, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
DiedJuly 23, 2012, La Jolla, California, U.S.
EducationStanford University (BA, BS, MS, PhD)
OccupationPhysicist
Partner(s)Tam O'Shaughnessy (1985–2012, Ride's death)

About Sally Ride

Sally Ride
Sally Ride

Astronaut Sally Ride was born on May 26, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, United States (She dies at the age of 61, on July 23, 2012).

American astronaut and physicist who joined NASA in 1978 and was the first woman from the United States to reach low-Earth orbit. STS-7 and STS-41-G were her missions aboard the Challenger shuttle.

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Sally Ride before becoming famous

Sally Ride was born in the Zodiac sign Gemini (The Twins), and 1951 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Rabbit (兔).

She was a nationally rated tennis player when she was younger, and she studied physics at School UCLA, School Stanford University, School Swarthmore College, and High School Harvard-Westlake School for Girls.

Achievement of Sally Ride

She was the youngest American in space at the time of her first flight in 1983.

Sally Ride's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

In 1982, she married Astronaut Steven Hawley, whom she divorced in 1987. Her 27-year relationship with Tam O'Shaughnessy, a female tennis player and professor, was exposed after her death.

Steven Hawley, 73 (Astronaut)
Steven Hawley, 73

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Astronaut Valentina Tereshkova of Russia was the first female to travel into space, despite becoming the first American woman to do so.

Valentina Tereshkova, 86 (Astronaut)
Valentina Tereshkova, 86

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Sally Ride Income & Net worth

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