3. • INTRODUCTION
A hero is someone who has
courage
• A hero is brave, who
severed
• A hero is someone who
changed our world into
something better
• A hero is more than just an
average person
• A hero is someone that you
4. HISTORY
• 1951-2012
• Lived in California/ Los
Angles
• Born May 26, died 2012
• Astronaut
• First women to fly to space
5. • HISTORY
But over the years only two other Russian woman followed
Tereshkova into orbit
• "The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to
go into space carried huge expectations along with it," Ride
recalled in an interview for the 25th anniversary of her flight
in 2008.
• Ride, who held a doctorate in physics, authored seven
children's science books.
6. YOUNG LIFE
• Joyce Ride; her sister, Bear; her niece, Caitlin and her
nephew, Whitney. Her father, Dale B. Ride, is deceased. She
enjoyed tennis (having been an instructor and having
achieved national ranking as a junior), running, volleyball,
softball and stamp collecting.
• Joined NASA in 1978
8. OLDER LIFE
• Helped design the robot arm for the space shuttle
• Launched from Kennedy space center on October 5, 1984
landing October 13, 1984
• First mission with a five person crew
10. WHAT MAKES HER A HERO?
• What made her hero was that she was the first women to
fly to space and she wanted to tell the other girls that you
don't have to be a boy to do something you can be a girl and
have an adventure.
• She also wrote 7 books about space. So maybe you can be a
astronaut when you up.
