Task 1. Read the text carefully Astronaut Sally RideWhen Sally Ride was just 9 years old, herfamily toured Europe for entire year and thenreturned home to Encino, California. Onceback at school, Sally wanted to be a winner insports and at school. In her teens she was achampion junior Tennis Player. She wasranked number eighteen among the bestyoung tennis players in the country when shewas 18. Sally always liked studying science.When she went to college, she studiedastrophysics. Astrophysics is the science ofstars and planets. She liked great literaturetoo. She graduated from college with twodegrees. The other degree was in English. Shestayed longer in college and became Dr. SallyRide. She was a specialist in astrophysics. Sallywas interested in joining NASA as anastronaut. She was chosen as one of sixwomen in the astronaut class in 1978. Shestudied at the Johnson Space Center inHouston, Texas. She learned how to fly militaryjets as part of her training. In 1982 Sally Ridewas selected to go on the second challengerspace flight. She would be the first Americanwoman to go into space. Sally Ride spent sixdays in space orbiting the Earth. Later SallyRide said, "the thing that I'll remember mostabout the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'msure it was the most fun that I will ever havefun in my life."choose true or falseSally Ride lived in Europe.​