Sally Ride

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Sally Ride is the first American woman to go into space. She is famous for going into space  when women were not known for doing such educational things.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 Ride's time it was unknown for women to work at a space center. During that time, she wanted people of all race, gender, ethnicity, and religion to follow there dreams. Sally Ride uses her commitment and courage to continue her work by making her success an inspiration.

Sally Ride's commitment to her education and goals have excelled throughout the years. In addition to working in NASA, Ride was a diligent college student "In 1977, Sally already had degrees in physics and English from Stanford University and was about to finish her Ph.D. in physics when she saw an ad in the Stanford student newspaper saying that NASA was looking for astronauts" (Sally Ride Science). Not only was Ride going to get her Ph. D in physics but she also wanted to work at NASA.Ride was already so busy with her classes but,she committed her time to become an astronaut. Ride went through mental and physical training while she was at NASA, and endeavored through "an intensive yearlong training program that included parachute jumping, water survival, adaption to gravitational pull and weightlessness, radio communications, and navigation" (Sally Ride). When Ride was accepted into NASA she had to commit in a lot of physical and mental training's to go into space. She performed tasks that most people would be scared about. What drove Ride to become an astronaut and a hero is her commitment to reaching her dream.

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Ride expresses her bravery by her actions. She physically and mentally had to go through rough tasks in her science life.After all of her brave training she finally got to go to space: "When she blasted off aboard the space shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983, she became the first American woman-and, at 32, the youngest American-in space" (Sally Ride Science). 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" (Sally Ride).  Ride helped out scientists to solve a problem that they were trying to figure out.Ride was confident enough to go with the other spacemen into space.Rides bravery helped herself reach her goals and she inspired so many other people to reach for their dreams.

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Sally Ride inspires people to achieve their goal no matter what gender, race, or ethnicity you are. Ride's "... opportunity was serendipitous, since the year she began job-hunting marked the first time NASA had opened its space program to applicants since the late 1960s, and the very first time women would not be excluded from consideration" (Sally Ride). This shows that Ride was in a time where women weren't known for doing anything men did.She inspires people by standing up to what you believe in.After all of Rides training,"For the first time in U.S. history,one of those astronauts was a woman.Sally Ride was about to become the first American woman to travel into space"(Mattern 1)."This shows that hard work can pay off if you just don't give up.Sally Ride is an inspirational person because she shows that being committed and daring can help a person achieve their goal.

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