Sally Ride: How Hard To Become An Astronaut

Sally Ride, born, as Sally Kirsten Ride was a physics professor and the first American female to become an astronaut. During her childhood she was intrigued by any activity that involved athleticism in addition to physics and space. These interests later proved to be extremely beneficial in her adult life. Though her parents encouraged her to push through gender norms; she faced adversity from her peers. However, she was unmoving in the face of this adversity and worked hard through college and into her adult life. Sally Ride was encouraged by her parents to be different and worked hard to become an astronaut whose legacy inspire women around the country. Ride’s parents inspired her to break gender norms and to be unmoving in her interests and beliefs, and she had to work hard to become an astronaut. Ride was born on May 26, 1959, to Dale B. Ride and …show more content…
As an adult in graduate school Ride came across an article advertising “mission specialists” needed to for work on future space flights. Out of more than ten thousand applicants she was selected to undergo NASA’s astronaut training (“Sally K. Ride”). Following her completion of the training she became skilled in using the remote manipulator arm (“Sally Ride 2”). Ride later completed two shuttle missions and racked up over three hundred and forty hours in space. Shortly after her last mission she was selected to be a part of the presidential committee in charge of investigating the Challenger accident (“Sally Ride”). Following her resignation from NASA she formed multiple organizations that focus on involving young girls in science and math (“Sally Ride 2”). She also accepted a position as a physicist at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Arms Control (“Sally Ride”). Although Sally Rude had difficulties fitting as the first female American astronaut she paved the way for women in the future to become astronauts as