{"id":23535,"date":"2018-05-29T09:13:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T14:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=23535"},"modified":"2018-05-29T09:13:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T14:13:56","slug":"usps-lists-6-sally-ride-facts-you-never-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2018\/05\/29\/usps-lists-6-sally-ride-facts-you-never-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Lists 6 Sally Ride facts you never knew"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space when the space shuttle Challenger launched June 18, 1983.<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n

USPS News Link – Sally Ride was the first American woman to travel into space, but that wasn\u2019t her only claim to fame. Here are six more fascinating facts about the subject of the Postal Service\u2019s\u00a0latest stamp<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

1. She was a lifelong stamp collector.<\/b>\u00a0Ride especially liked stamps that featured the Olympics and space exploration.<\/p>\n

2. She had superstar tennis skills.<\/b>\u00a0Ride was a nationally ranked player in college and was encouraged by tennis legend Billie Jean King to turn professional. Instead, Ride continued to pursue physics, receiving a doctorate from Stanford University.<\/p>\n

3. She was no fan of dumb questions.<\/b>\u00a0Before Ride began her historic journey into space in 1983, she was subjected to\u00a0more than a few chauvinistic questions<\/i><\/a>\u00a0from reporters. On one occasion, someone asked her if she ever weeps when things go wrong on the job. Her response: \u201cHow come nobody ever asks [male astronauts] those questions?\u201d<\/p>\n

4. She was offered the chance to lead NASA.<\/b>\u00a0President Bill Clinton asked Ride to serve as NASA\u2019s first woman administrator, but she chose to continue her tenure at the University of California San Diego as a physics professor and director of the California Space Institute.<\/p>\n

5. She was a\u00a0<\/b>STEM education<\/i><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/i>advocate.<\/b>\u00a0In 2001, she co-founded Sally Ride Science to create opportunities for students to learn about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Ride also co-authored seven children\u2019s books on scientific themes, including \u201cTo Space and Back.\u201d<\/p>\n

6. A spot on the moon is named after her.<\/b>\u00a0Ride directed public outreach and educational programs for a NASA mission that sent twin satellites to map the moon\u2019s gravity. The Sally K. Ride Impact Site is where the two probes crash-landed after the operation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space when the space shuttle Challenger launched June 18, 1983. USPS News Link – Sally Ride was the first American woman to travel into space, but that wasn\u2019t her only claim to fame. Here are six more fascinating facts about the subject of the Postal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23537,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23535\/revisions\/23537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}