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   On May 26, 1951 in Encinco, California, Dale B. Ride 

and Carol Joyce Ride just got a beautiful girl named 

Sally Kristin Ride. Encinco is very near Los Angelos, so 

Sally is known being born in Los Angelos. A few years 

later, Sally's sister Karen was born. She too, was a 

beautiful sight. The sisters got along as most sisters do. 

Fussy, but sometimes very well. Sally was very 

interested in outdoors at that time, and developed a 

great tennis skill starting at age ten. She also loved 

science and got good grades at school. She was very 

good at tennis and even ranked eighteenth on the junior 

national tennis routine.

  Eventually, she just got better and better. She 

got so good that she got a tennis scholarship to 

Westlake School for Girls, and graduated there. 

Unfortunately, she didn't choose tennis as her 

career. Instead,she went to Swarthmore College, 

but dropped out because she later decided that she 

wanted to finish her dream: to be a professional 

tennis player. After a few months of hard practice, 

she knew she couldn't do it, so she went to 

Stanford University to study English and Literature.  

  The English and Literature class suited her well, and 

in 1973, she earned two bachelors, and is almost 

finished with her choice of being a teacher. Finally, in 

1975, she got her master degree and was on her way 

to being a teacher. Just then, the National Aeronautics 

and Space Administration,NASA, was trying to pick 

out astronauts, and Sally was picked out of 8,000 

people. While she was still training, there was this 

mysterious man called Steve Hawley, they fell in love, 

so in 1982, they married. Sadly, and happily, in 1987, 

they got divorced.

   Her training went very well. So, on 1983, Sally 

went onto the moon on the Challenger, and was the 

first American woman on the moon. There was quite 

a few other people that went there before her, but 

she was the first American woman on the moon. Also, 

she's the youngest person sent to orbit. She went on 

space three times, and all three times were on the 

Challenger. Unfortunately, on the second time, the 

1st Challenger broke, so they built a new one. Sally 

was on the investigation team for when it broke 

down.

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