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Sally Ride Timeline Game

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Sally Ride was the first American woman in space, breaking barriers and inspiring generations of young girls to pursue careers in science and exploration.

  • Players will learn about Sally Ride’s historic mission aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983.
  • They will also discover her work as a physicist, astronaut, and advocate for STEM education.

Game Details: a timeline game where you place events in their correct chronological order

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  • 1978: Sally Ride is selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA
  • June 18, 1983: Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger (STS-7)
  • October 5, 1984: Sally Ride becomes the first American woman to make a second space flight (STS-41-G)
  • 1987: Sally Ride leaves NASA and becomes a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego
  • 2001: Sally Ride founds Sally Ride Science, a company focused on encouraging young girls to pursue careers in science and math
  • May 29, 2012: Sally Ride is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama
  • July 23, 2012: Sally Ride dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 61
  • 2013: Sally Ride is inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame
  • 2014: Sally Ride's biography, 'Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space', is published
  • 2018: Sally Ride is honored with a US postage stamp
  • May 26, 2020: Sally Ride's 68th birthday is celebrated with a Google Doodle

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