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Some astronauts slept in bags attached to a wall, and others slept in a compartment that was similar to a locker. Sally slept in a bag strapped to the wall. A lot of their food was a thick paste, like mashed potatoes, so that the bits didn’t float away. They drank out of pouches with straws, not glasses. During training, the astronauts had taste-tested food and decided what it was best to bring to eat while in space. Sally and her crewmates had about 75 items to choose from the NASA menu, plus 20 beverages.
For example, iron is a pure metal that rusts easily. By adding a little chromium, another pure metal, an alloy called stainless steel is produced. This alloy is strong, but it does not rust, even though it is mostly iron. Metal alloy research is important for improving all kinds of equipment that is made from metals, such as microchips. Space offers a whole new range of possibilities in the formation of alloys because the different metals 50 stay mixed, without gravity to pull the heavier metals in the mixture down to the bottom.
Hawley and Sally Ride were married in 1982. , had given her the ability to learn things. During the same period that Sally Ride was training, she was dating a fellow astronaut, Steve Hawley. The pair was married in 1982, at the groom’s family home in Kansas. Sally flew her own plane to the ceremony. Steve was also an astronaut in training, and the couple lived in the suburbs near the space center where they worked. They were very private, avoided appearing in public together, and did not allow media staff into their home.
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