web A doodle honors the former astronaut who would have been 64 on Tuesday …
She would have celebrated his 64 candles today. Died three years ago, Sally Ride was the first American to fly in space, following in the footsteps of two Soviet Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982).
Remember his exploits, Google appears, since this Tuesday morning, several Doodle in its search engine. Depending on when they click, users can enter the skin of Sally Ride, who walks in the cockpit of a rocket or levitates in the air.
First American woman to fly to space
Born May 26, 1951 in Los Angeles, California (west), Sally Ride, will study in the prestigious Stanford University, where she graduated with a doctorate released in 1978 by leading, At the same time, research in astrophysics and in the field of the physics of free electron lasers.
A year earlier, the young woman takes advantage of the opening to women of NASA selections ( to become an astronaut) to apply for the program. By participating in the second shuttle mission Challenger , Sally Ride becomes 32, the first American woman to fly into space. A year later, the astronaut will make his second trip aboard the space shuttle. The explosion of the shuttle Challenger in January 1986 void the third mission of the American astronaut.
Educate smaller science
In 1987, Sally Ride left the space agency to devote himself to teaching and writing popular science books for children. To educate the little ones, the former astronaut will create the foundation Sally Ride Science in 2001 to make the teaching of science to young students more interesting and fun.
Sally Ride died July 23, 2012 as a result of pancreatic cancer.
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