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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Today is a Day 2 (HS) Day 2 (Elem)

The Lunch Menu for Today is:  

  • Chicken Fajitas on a Wrap
  • Baked Beans
  • Corn
  • WG Roll
  • Asst. Fruit Cup

TODAY IN HISTORY:  Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space

On June 18, 1983,  the space shuttle Challenger is launched into space on its second mission. On board the shuttle is Dr. Sally K. Ride, who as a mission specialist, becomes the first American woman to travel into space.

Ride, who had earlier pursued a professional tennis career, answered a newspaper ad in 1977 from NASA calling for young tech-savvy scientists who could work as mission specialists.

The United States had screened a group of female pilots in 1959 and 1960 for possible astronaut training but later decided to restrict astronaut qualification to men. In 1978, NASA changed its policy and announced that it had approved six women out of some 3,000 original applicants to become the first female astronauts in the U.S. space program.

Ride was a Stanford University alum (she received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics, a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, as well as a Master of Science and doctorate in physics). She became an on-the-ground capsule communicator (CAPCOM) for NASA’s STS-2 and STS-3 missions in 1981 and 1982, becoming an expert in controlling the shuttle’s robotic arm.

NASA announced Ride would be part of the STS-7 crew on April 30, 1982, serving as mission specialist and joining Commander Robert L. Crippen, mission specialist John M. Fabian, physician-astronaut Norman E. Thagard and pilot Frederick H. Hauck on the historic flight.

Over six days, the crew’s complex tasks included launching commercial communications satellites for Indonesia and Canada and deploying and retrieving a satellite using the shuttle’s robotic arm. Ride, who was 32 at the time, was the first woman to operate the shuttle’s mechanical arm.

The mission also included experiments such as the study of the effects of zero gravity on the social behavior of an ant colony, research surrounding metal alloys in microgravity and space sickness investigations.

History.com

HIGH SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENTS

REGENTS EXAM INFORMATION

  • All Students please check in at the table by the tunnels to find out which room you are taking the test in.
  • If you need a bus and you are not taking your test first thing in the morning or are waiting for a bus after testing, please report to the High School side of the library.
  • There will be 3:16 busses, so please don't rush Regents Exams.

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ELEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Reminder: There is no school on Thursday, June 19 - Juneteenth. 

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