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July 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Robert L Crippen, who commanded the 1983 mission, said he chose Dr Ride
because of her expertise with robotics and her ability to maintain her cool
under extreme pressure. During the mission she was the crew member who
operated a roBotic arm to deploy and retrieve a satellite.
When the team took off a crowd of 250,000 watched the launch, with many
cheering and singing “Ride Sally Ride” from the Mack Rice song “Mustang
Sally”.
A year after her first voyage she successfully returned to space in the same
shuttle for an eight-day mission. She was training for a third mission when
disaster struck the Challenger shuttle at the Kennedy Space Centre in 1986
and the programme was suspended.
Six of her colleagues died in the disaster along with a schoolteacher who was
participating in a mission to become the first person to teach from space.
Astronaut Sally Ride monitors control panels from the pilot’s chair on
the flight deck of the Space Shuttle Challenger (Nasa)
Dr Ride, a star physicist who was accepted onto the space programme in 1978
after answering an advertisement for astronauts in a newspaper, was a member
of the team that investigated the incident. She later sat on the panel
investigating the Columbia crash in 2003.
Charles Bolden, a former astronaut who is now the administrator of Nasa, said
she would be missed but “her star will always shine brightly”.
“Sally Ride broke barriers with grace and professionalism – and
literally changed the face of America’s space programme,” he added.
Dr Ride grew up in Los Angeles and went to Stanford University, where she
earned degrees in physics and English.
In 1989 she left Nasa and became a professor at Stanford and set up Sally Ride
Science in San Diego, a science hub for young people.
She also wrote five science books for children and served on dozens of Nasa,
space and technology advisory panels.
Ride is survived by her mother, O’Shaughnessy, a sister, a niece and a nephew.
Astronaut Sally Ride in 1983 (Rex/AP)
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