Sally Ride - a deeper dive
Hello everyone!
Here’s all the extra information for the episode about Sally Ride that I put on Social Media throughout the 2 weeks that the episode was current.
These are in chronological order to Sally Ride’s story.
Episode summary: Sally Ride was an American astronaut and physicist. She joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space. She was the youngest American astronaut to have flown in space. Sally Ride is also the first astronaut known to have been part of the LGBTQ+ community.
Sally Ride was very athletic!
Sally wasn’t only athletic, she was intellectual as well.
The application process Sally went through to become an astronaut.
As the first woman American astronaut, Sally Ride was subjected to some really inappropriate questions from the media.
Sally Ride brought a scarf belonging to another trail-blazing woman into space - Amelia Earhart!
Giving Sally Ride the final word in this segment:
Here’s a link to the episode about Sally Ride:
Here’s a link to the podcast’s website: