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Sally Ride is an important woman in our history. She was born on May 26, 1951 in Los Angeles, California. She is now 60 years old. She was an educator, astronaut, and physicist. She had many great accomplishments in her life.

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Sally Ride became the first American women to go to space aboard the space shuttle //Challenger.// She has recieved the NASA Space Flight Medal and NCAA's Theodore Roosevelt Award. She is in the National Women's Hall Of Fame and the Astronaut Hall of Fame as well. ======


 * ======Sally Ride studied at Stanford University and beat 1000 other people who were trying to get into NASA's space program. ======


 * ======She earned her bachelor's degree in physics and English. She continued college to get her master's degree in 1975 and a Ph.D in 1978. ======


 * She became the director of the California Space Institute at the University of California. She was also a professor in physics there.


 * Sally Ride created her own company called //Sally Ride Science// to inspire girls and young women in science and math.


 * Sally Ride served as president and CEO. She was scheduled to take her 3rd trip to space but this trip was later cancelled because of the tragic //Challenger's// accident, which Sally Ride got to investigate.

Sally Ride made our lives better. Today, we can have a better life because of her. She proved that women could do anything men could and that they could do it just as well too. She inspired other women to follow their dreams in science and math. If she hadn't taken a stand, women may have never been daring enough to do what they dreamed of doing. Sally Ride proved anything is possible, and that women are just as good as men. We can do anything we set our minds to.