Sally Ride Children: Did Sally Ride have kids?

Sally Ride was an American astronaut and physicist. Sally Ride did not have any children.

Sally Ride received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from Stanford University in 1973, a Master of Science degree in physics in 1975, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in physics in 1978 for research on the interaction of X-rays with the interstellar medium.

She was chosen as a mission specialist astronaut with NASA Astronaut Group 8, the first class of female NASA astronauts. She travelled in space on the Space Shuttle Challenger during the STS-7 mission in June 1983. Her second space trip was the STS-41-G mission aboard Challenger in 1984. She was in orbit for a total of 343 hours. She retired in 1987.

After leaving NASA in 1987, Ride joined the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) as a physics professor and the director of the California Space Institute (Cal Space), which became part of the university’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1989.

She left UCSD in 2007 to become a professor emeritus. Ride managed two public-outreach programmes for NASA, the ISS EarthKAM and GRAIL MoonKAM initiatives, in collaboration with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and UCSD, from the mid-1990s until her death.