Keith’s Update: DoD confirmed that ERBS reentered at 11:04 pm EST on Sunday over the Bering Sea. Keith’s original note: ERBS was launched from Space Shuttle Challenger during the STS-41-G mission by astronaut Sally Ride. If you have have a chance to see the IMAX film “The Dream Is Alive” then you can the actual ERBS deployment. And yes, the narrator is Walter Cronkite. More
(more…)Awesome display honoring the ship’s namesake Sally Ride, which includes the Presidential Medal of Freedom she was posthumously awarded. #AGU2019 pic.twitter.com/IHOO913udg — Lauren Fimbres Wood (@laurenfimbres) December 11, 2019
Sally Ride: Behind the Google Doodle that marks the late space pioneer’s birthday, Washington Post “Sally Ride, this trailblazing astronaut turned physics professor, for so long keenly studied, and then for so long taught, the laws of bodies in motion, as one thread in her lifelong work in science and technology. So it’s especially fitting that Google unveils a “Behind the Doodle” animation, as we get to see Ride’s own […]
Obama regarding Sally Ride : "The sky is no limit for those reaching for the stars" #ISS15 #NASA pic.twitter.com/R76ZX2vqei — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) November 20, 2013 Sally Ride’s life partner Tam O’Shaughnessy accepting the Medal of Freedom on her behalf from President Obama
Sally Ride National Tribute at Kennedy Center Tonight “NASA and Sally Ride Science are inviting journalists to tonight’s “Sally Ride: A Lifetime of Accomplishment, A Champion of Science Literacy,” a national tribute to America’s first woman in space. The special event will be held at the Concert Hall of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.” President Obama Announces Sally Ride as a Recipient of the Presidential Medal […]
Navy Research Vessel Named After Sally Ride “Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus has announced the names of seven ships. Included is an ocean-class auxiliary general oceanographic research (AGOR) ship, the R/V Sally Ride. Mabus named the future R/V Sally Ride (AGOR 28), which will be a Neil Armstrong-class AGOR ship, to honor the memory of Sally Ride, a professor, scientist and an innovator at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University […]
NASA’s GRAIL Lunar Impact Site Named for Astronaut Sally Ride, NASA “NASA has named the site where twin agency spacecraft impacted the moon Monday in honor of the late astronaut, Sally K. Ride, who was America’s first woman in space and a member of the probes’ mission team. Last Friday, Ebb and Flow, the two spacecraft comprising NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, were commanded to descend into […]
NASA Offers Condolences on the Passing of Pioneering Astronaut Sally Ride “Sally Ride broke barriers with grace and professionalism – and literally changed the face of America’s space program,” said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. “The nation has lost one of its finest leaders, teachers and explorers. Our thoughts and prayers are with Sally’s family and the many she inspired. She will be missed, but her star will always shine brightly.” […]
The Next Generation of Innovators, White House Blog “President Obama today helped launch a new campaign, “Educate to Innovate,” designed to energize and excite America’s students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). It builds on the President’s pledge that he would use his position to help encourage students to study and consider careers in science, engineering, technology, and innovation–fields upon which America’s future depends–and elevate those students from the […]
