Sally Ride

July 24th, 2012
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Sally Ride

“What’s it like to be in space?”  “Is it scary?”  Is it cold?”  “Do you have trouble sleeping?”

These are the first sentences from a wonderful book that astronaut Sally Ride wrote in 1986 with her childhood friend, Dr. Susan Oakie, who once was a medical reporter for The Washington Post.
Everyone always has tons of questions about what it feels like to be in space and Ride and Oakie’s book, titled To Space & Back, was written to give children a sense of what it feels like to circle the Earth, experience being weightless and even … Read More