I love NASA. I grew up loving everything about astronauts and space travel. I didn’t want to be an astronaut, it was just a big interest. I did my science projects on space or space travel every year. When I was right, I discovered that if you wrote to NASA, telling them you wanted to become a teacher, they would send you a huge packet of stuff I could use in the science fair. I did that every year in elementary school.
Then I was nine and Sally Ride became the first American woman to go to space.
Sally Ride was the first American woman to go into space. She is famous for going into space when women were not known to be involved with the space program, though we know now she was far from it. When Ride was in college, she signed up for the NASA program. She was accepted and started training immediately. Ride had to endure through mental and physical training in order to go into space. In her time it was unknown for women to trsin at a space center. During that time, she wanted people of all race, gender, ethnicity, and religion to follow their dreams.
Ride was daring enough to risk her life by doing the things she loves the most, learning about space. She did something that most people would never be able to do. Not only did she risk her life once, but she also went to space two more times. From June 18 to June 24, 1983, flight STS-7 of the space shuttle Challenger launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, orbited Earth for six days, returned to Earth, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
How amazing is that?
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