GC2VCF8 May 26th~Sally Ride Day
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Imusttravel2000 @ | Hide Date: 05/01/2011 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 52.329 W104° 52.585 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 1
   

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Sally Ride Day honors the first American woman to go into space. Dr. Ride accomplished this feat as a mission specialist aboard STS-7, the second flight of the Space Shuttle "Challenger". STS-7 was launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on June 18, 1983.

Celebrate Sally Ride Day by learning more about the U.S. space program and NASA. Better yet, we encourage everyone to push for a more active and dedicated U.S. space program and policy.

If any of you young ladies (and young gentlemen) have thought about becoming an astronaut, we encourage you to follow your dream of going into space. Exploration and taming of the frontier made America what it is today. As a famous trekkie one said. "Space is the final frontier".

Sally Ride was born on May 26, 1951 in Los Angeles, California. As a young girl, she wanted to become a professional tennis player and, at one time, was a ranked player on the junior tennis circuit. She attended Stanford University where she earned four degrees. Dr. Ride has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics. She also has a Masters degree in Physics and a Ph.D. in Physics. She was accepted into the astronaut corps in 1978 and completed her training as a mission specialist in 1979. On June 18,1983 she became the first American woman to orbit Earth when she flew aboard Space Shuttle Challenger. Her second flight was also aboard Challenger in 1984. Dr. Ride was a member of the team chosen to investigate the explosion of Challenger in 1986. She left the astronaut corps in 1987 to join the faculty of Stanford University, her alma mater. Dr. Ride was, and is, concerned about the lack of women scientists and engineers.

Her decision to return to Stanford University was evidence of her commitment to finding a solution to the problem. Since 1989, Dr. Ride has been on the faculty of the University of California at San Diego, where she also heads the California Space Institute.

She is currently on leave from the univerity and is directing Sally Ride Science, a company that creates fun science experiences for young learners.

Cache was made for the "Colorful Colorado" (event) cache exchange. I was fortunate to obtain this beautiful cache and share it.

05/30/2022 By sheepherder
Out looking for a few caches. Found your cache. Thank you for your cache

05/30/2022 By quinnster212
Not easy to get to but it is there. Thanks for the cache!

11/21/2021 By GeoDog74
WOO-HOO! First of the afternoon as I work my east to finish up the Old Buckley road powertrail. Fun fast find here, stamped my name and kept trucking. TFTC!

04/27/2021 By Buggirl53
Quick find. Thanks

04/27/2021 By violet5170
Awesome. Thx!

05/03/2019 By lasouthpaw
I was jonesing for a cache today but it was just super busy. Decided to go for one close-ish to work so I could grab one during lunch. I expected more muggle traffic but I got lucky and didn't have too many folks go by. Thanks for the smiley! Find #3478.

03/09/2019 By LostinDenver
Today I went geocaching with @2lablovers . We targeted caches north of our usual caching grounds. Quick run through the muddy gully to grab this one. TFTC!

03/09/2019 By 2lablovers
Out caching with @LostinDenver on this blustery chilly March day. Most of the caches we found today belonged to you or your sister.

05/07/2018 By cjcacher01
Climbing up made it easier to spot but not necessarily needed. TFTC!!!

05/07/2018 By mona01
Took a bit to find. Good area on a Sunday. Glad spring warm weather is here!

10/27/2017 By Sqweeter
Gee, it's been over 2 years since I last looked for this one. I can see why I missed it before. Glad I had gloves with me. Cache is in good shape. Log is dry for now. Thanks for another in the series IMT. SL

05/11/2017 By Rohatx
Had some time to kill before work. The container had some water in it but the log was dry.
TFTC!

11/09/2016 By JeoCacher
tx4tc. just getting around to logging this one. my company has a terminal nearby and i needed a leg stretch. this was a good leg stretching distance away. sl and cached on. JC

04/19/2016 By tamiuron
Thanks, imusttravel2000! I like this series. My big event for the day was the Big Dry Creek CITO event in Westminster. It did not start until 10 a.m., so I had some time to look for some caches early in the morning in the Commerce City area. It was cold and wet this morning, but it warmed up nicely for the CITO and finding some other caches in the area. I run a pocket query every night for all the caches I have not found yet in the area, so I always have plenty to look for.
--tamiuron, sign nano logs TRON

04/01/2016 By live2kick
Tftc,sl
Happy April fools day!
Also day 341 of our totally awesome geocaching streak!

03/29/2016 By robespierre50
Got it, dust and pollen, but persevered for the find. Thanks SL.

03/12/2016 By wksloan
TFTC SL, out for a nice Sat afternoon drive. That was a dusty find.

06/25/2015 By Kroozer
All I found was a snake, so I was outta there!