Author: RIDE, SALLY
Title: To Space and Back Inscribed 1st Edition
Description: New York, Lothrop Lee & Shepard. 1986, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9780688061593). Hardcover. Book, Book & jacket are about fine, Neatly inscribed by Sally Ride on the title page. Avery nice 4-fold 14"x20" publisher's promo poster of Sally Ride is laid in the book Sally Ride was an American astronaut and physicist who joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman in space. Sally Ride, who was twice on the Orbiter Challenger, remains the youngest American astronaut to have traveled to space (having done so at age 32). Ride left NASA in 1987. She worked for two years at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control and at the UC San Diego as professor of physics. Sally Ride served on the committees that investigated the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters, the only person to participate on both. In 2012, Sally Ride died of pancreatic cancer. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Author(s).

Keywords: 9780688061593 OUTER SPACE JUVENILE LITERATURE EXPLORATION


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