Sally Ride was born May 26, 1951, in CA & was the 1st American woman to fly into space in 1983 #WomensHistoryMonthpic.twitter.com/KpfkIY3Vf8
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@NASA began looking for women astronauts in 1977 & Sally saw an ad in the school newspaper inviting women to apply to the astronaut program
Sally decided to apply for the astronaut position. She was 1/6 women picked! #WHM2017
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After Sally left
@NASA, she started teaching at@UCSanDiego &started looking for ways to help women/girls who wanted to study science & math -
Sally also came up w/the idea for
@NASA's EarthKAM project: lets middle school students take pics of Earth from the Interntl Space Station - 1 more reply
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