Task 1. Read the text carefully Astronaut Sally Ride
When Sally Ride was just 9 years old, her
family toured Europe for entire year and then
returned home to Encino, California. Once
back at school, Sally wanted to be a winner in
sports and at school. In her teens she was a
champion junior Tennis Player. She was
ranked number eighteen among the best
young tennis players in the country when she
was 18. Sally always liked studying science.
When she went to college, she studied
astrophysics. Astrophysics is the science of
stars and planets. She liked great literature
too. She graduated from college with two
degrees. The other degree was in English. She
stayed longer in college and became Dr. Sally
Ride. She was a specialist in astrophysics. Sally
was interested in joining NASA as an
astronaut. She was chosen as one of six
women in the astronaut class in 1978. She
studied at the Johnson Space Center in
Houston, Texas. She learned how to fly military
jets as part of her training. In 1982 Sally Ride
was selected to go on the second challenger
space flight. She would be the first American
woman to go into space. Sally Ride spent six
days in space orbiting the Earth. Later Sally
Ride said, "the thing that I'll remember most
about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm
sure it was the most fun that I will ever have
fun in my life."
choose true or false
Sally Ride lived in Europe.
