Sally Ride High School Yearbook
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Sally Ride, the first American woman in space . Sally Ride High School Yearbook: 1967 Westlake School for Girls - Vox Puellarum Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA), 1967Ride attended private Westlake School in Los Angeles on a scholarship.[3] In addition to being interested in science, she was a nationally ranked tennis player. Ride later entered Stanford University as a junior, graduating with a bachelor's degree in English and physics. At Stanford, she earned a master's degree in 1975 and a PhD in physics in 1978. Ride was one of only 5 women selected for NASA’s class of ’78. Ride was one of five crewmembers aboard the space shuttle Challenger STS-7. On June 18, 1983, she became the first American woman in space, and the youngest American in space. Not only is Ride the first American woman in space, she is also the first acknowledged gay astronaut. She passed away on July 23, 2012 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.
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