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BIRTH DATE
in Los Angeles, California.
was an American physicist and astronaut. -
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HER LIFE
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EDUCATION
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EDUCATION
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GRADUATED
Graduated from Westlake High School, Los Angeles, California, in 1968 -
JOINED NASA
after responding to a newspaper advertisement -
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HIS LIFE AS AN ASTRONAUT
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PERSONAL LIFE
Ride was extremely private about her personal life. She married fellow NASA astronaut Steve Hawley in 1982; they divorced in 1987. -
THE FIRST AMERICAN WOMAN TO ENTER SPACE
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FIRST WOMAN
the first woman to use the robot arm in space and the first to use the arm to retrieve a satellite. she has spent more than a total of 343 hours in space -
CHALLENGER ACCIDENT- PRESIDENTIAL
Ride had completed eight months of training for her third flight when the space shuttle challenger accident ocurred. she was named to presidential commission investigating the accident -
DEATH DATE
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UNIVERSITY
received from Stanford University a Bachelor of Science in Physics and a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1973 -
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Master of Science and Doctorate in Physics in 1975 and 1978, respectively.