Photo Source: NASA

Today, we salute a great educator who we lost last week.   

“(Sally Ride) made history when she rode the space shuttle Challenger into orbit in 1983, but she was also a NASA adviser, a lifelong educator, and a founder of Sally Ride Science, a venture dedicated to inspiring and teaching young people, especially girls, about science and space.”

Read more about Ride’s accomplishments here.

Teachers: your class can build their own space ship today with this Design Squad Nation DIY Touchdown project.