Sally Ride

Sally Ride. Written by B Silverberg.

萨莉·赖德。 作者：B 西尔弗伯格。

Introduction. Half a million people cheered when Sally Ride took off at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The space shuttle Challenger shot into space on June 18, 1983. Sally was the first American woman in space and she was the youngest American astronaut, male or female, at age 32.

介绍。 萨莉·赖德在佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角升空时，有五十万人为她欢呼。 1983年6月18日，挑战者号航天飞机冲入太空。 萨莉是美国第一位进入太空的女性，32岁的她也是所有美国宇航员中最年轻的，无论男女。

Sally and four other astronauts were strapped inside the space shuttle. The shuttle was attached to a huge fuel tank. Two smaller rocket boosters were mounted onto the fuel tank. They helped power the shuttle into space. The tank and boosters dropped into the ocean after they used up their fuel. In 44 minutes and 27 seconds, the Challenger was circling the Earth.

萨莉和另外四名宇航员被固定在航天飞机内。 航天飞机连接着一个巨大的燃料箱。 燃料箱上安装了两个更小的火箭助推器。 它们为航天飞机提供动力，助力它进入太空。 燃料耗尽后，燃料箱和助推器会落入海洋。 仅用44分27秒，挑战者号就开始环绕地球飞行了。

Sally was the flight engineer on board. During the time in space, she and John Fabian, another scientist, worked on 40 experiments. They also tested a 15 -meter, 50 -foot robot arm. It was used to pick up broken satellites in space. The whole crew returned to Earth in six days. They had traveled 4 million kilometers, 2 .5 million miles.

萨莉是本次任务的飞行工程师。 在太空停留期间，她和另一位科学家约翰·费边一起完成了40项实验。 他们还测试了一个长15米，也就是50英尺的机械臂。 这个机械臂用来回收太空中坏掉的卫星。 全体宇航员六天后返回了地球。 他们一共飞行了400万公里，也就是250万英里。

Growing up, Sally was born on May 26, 1951. Two years later, her parents, Dale and Joyce Ride, had another daughter, Karen. The family lived in Encino, California. The planets, stars, and galaxies always fascinated Sally, yet she never thought about becoming an astronaut. When Sally was nine, the whole family spent a year traveling in Europe. She started to get an idea of how big the world was. In high school, she was very interested in science. Sally loved sports. She worked hard at tennis, often winning big matches. She went on to college and earned degrees in physics and literature. She even earned a PhD, making her Dr. Sally Ride. Her field was astrophysics, the study of stars and other bodies in space.

成长经历：萨莉出生于1951年5月26日。 两年后，她的父母戴尔和乔伊斯·赖德又生下了小女儿凯伦。 一家人住在加利福尼亚州的恩西诺。 行星、恒星和星系一直让萨莉着迷，但她从没想要成为宇航员。 萨莉九岁那年，全家去欧洲旅行了一年。 她开始意识到这个世界有多么辽阔。 上高中时，她对科学非常感兴趣。 萨莉热爱运动。 她刻苦练习网球，经常赢下大型比赛。 她之后考上大学，取得了物理学和文学学位。 她还拿到了博士学位，是萨莉·赖德博士。 她的研究领域是天体物理学，也就是研究恒星和太空其他天体的学科。

Early Astronaut Training One day Sally saw an ad recruiting NASA astronauts. NASA is short for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA was looking for the very best people to learn about space travel. Sally was chosen for the 1978 NASA astronaut class. She was very proud. Two women from the Soviet Union had already been in space. She wanted to be the first American woman in space.

早期宇航员训练：一天，萨莉看到了NASA招募宇航员的广告。 NASA是美国国家航空航天局的缩写。 NASA正在寻找最优秀的人才学习太空旅行相关知识。 萨莉入选了1978届NASA宇航员班。 她感到非常自豪。 当时已经有两位苏联女性进入过太空了。 她想要成为美国第一位进入太空的女性。