Título: Sally Ride
Seção: After NASA
Background: The elder child of Dale Burdell Ride and Carol Joyce (nee Anderson), Ride was born in Los Angeles. She had one sibling, Karen "Bear" Ride, who is a Presbyterian minister. Both parents were elders in the Presbyterian Church. Ride's mother had worked as a volunteer counselor at a women's correctional facility.

Conteúdo: In 1987, Ride left her position in Washington, D.C., to work at the Stanford University Center for International Security and Arms Control. In 1989, she became a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego, and director of the California Space Institute. From the mid-1990s until her death, Ride led two public-outreach programs for NASA--the ISS EarthKAM and GRAIL MoonKAM projects, in cooperation with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and UCSD. The programs allowed middle school students to request images of the Earth and moon. In 1999, she acted in the season 5 finale of Touched by an Angel, titled "Godspeed". In 2003, she was asked to serve on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. She was the president and CEO of Sally Ride Science, a company she co-founded in 2001 that creates entertaining science programs and publications for upper elementary and middle school students, with a particular focus on girls. According to Roger Boisjoly, the engineer who warned of the technical problems that led to the Challenger disaster, after the entire workforce of Morton-Thiokol shunned him Ride was the only public figure to show support for him when he went public with his pre-disaster warnings. Sally Ride hugged him publicly to show her support for his efforts. Ride wrote or co-wrote seven books on space aimed at children, with the goal of encouraging children to study science. Ride endorsed Barack Obama for U.S. President in 2008. She was a member of the Review of

user: When did Ride leave NASA?

assistant: 1987,

user: What did she do at the Stanford Center?

assistant: a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego, and director of the California Space Institute.

user: How long was she there?

assistant: From the mid-1990s until her death,

user: Was she successful as a professor?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: Did she have any other professions?

assistant: In 1999, she acted in the season 5 finale of Touched by an Angel, titled "Godspeed". In 2003, she was asked to serve on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board.

user: What was involved in the programs?

assistant: The programs allowed middle school students to request images of the Earth and moon.

user: What did she do after this?

assistant: She was the president and CEO of Sally Ride Science, a company she co-founded in 2001 that creates entertaining science programs

user: Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?

assistant: Ride wrote or co-wrote seven books on space aimed at children, with the goal of encouraging children to study science.

user: What was Sally Ride Science?

assistant: a company she co-founded in 2001 that creates entertaining science programs and publications for upper elementary and middle school students,

user: Did she have any other careers in her life?

assistant: She was a member of the Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee, an independent review requested by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (

user: Did she have a family at this time?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER