Editing Sally Ride (section)

== After NASA ==
[[File:Open for Questions with Astronaut Sally Ride.webm|thumb|right|Sally Ride takes questions at the [[White House Astronomy Night]] (2009)|alt=In front of the White House with Dwayne Brown from NASA public affairs (audio visual)]]
In May 1987, Ride announced that she was leaving NASA to take up a two-year fellowship at the Stanford University [[Center for International Security and Cooperation|Center for International Security and Arms Control]] (CISAC), commencing on August 15, 1987.<ref>{{cite news |title=Astronaut Sally Ride to Leave NASA |first=Michael |last=Specter |date=May 27, 1987 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/05/27/astronaut-sally-ride-to-leave-nasa/73777e16-f367-4b11-8620-d09a114ff541/ |access-date=March 7, 2022}}</ref> She divorced Hawley in June.<ref name="Time1987">{{cite magazine |last1=Garcia |first1=Guy D. |last2=Thigpen |first2=David E. |title=People: June 8, 1987 |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,964610,00.html |access-date=July 27, 2012 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=June 8, 1987 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505174526/http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,964610,00.html |archive-date=May 5, 2021 |location=New York City |url-status=live}}</ref> At Stanford, her colleagues included [[Condoleezza Rice]], a specialist on the Soviet Union. Ride researched means by which [[nuclear warhead]]s could be counted and verified from space, but the impending end of the [[Cold War]] made this a much less pressing issue. As the end of her fellowship approached, Ride hoped to secure a permanent position at Stanford. [[Sidney Drell]], who had recruited her, attempted to get a department to appoint her as a professor, but none would. Drell resigned from CISAC in protest.<ref name="Sherr2014" />{{rp|pp=231–234}}

On July 1, 1989, Ride became a professor of physics at the [[University of California, San Diego]] (UCSD), and director of the California Space Institute (Cal Space), part of the university's [[Scripps Institution of Oceanography]]. She was paid a professor's salary of $64,000 ({{Inflation|US|64000|1989|fmt=eq|r=-3}}) plus a $6,000 [[stipend]] as director of Cal Space, which employed 28 full- and part-time staff and had a budget of $3.3&nbsp;million (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|3.3|1989}} million in {{Inflation/year|US}}).<ref>{{cite news |first= Patrick |last=McDonnell |title=Astronaut Ride to Pursue Dual Interests at UCSD |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=June 17, 1989 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-17-me-1508-story.html |access-date=22 July 2022}}</ref> Her research primarily involved the study of [[nonlinear optics]] and [[Thomson scattering]].<ref>{{cite web |title=S. K. Ride's research while affiliated with University of California, San Diego and other places |url=https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/S-K-Ride-6355846 |access-date=24 July 2022}}</ref> She remained director of Cal Space until 1996. She retired from UCSD in 2007 and became a [[professor emeritus]].<ref>{{cite press release |date=July 24, 2012 |first=Susan |last=Brown |title=Sally Ride, First American Woman in Space and Former California Space Institute Director, Dies at 61 |publisher=[[University of California, San Diego]] |url=https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/sally_ride_physics_professor_and_former_director_of_california_space_instit |access-date=24 July 2022}}</ref>

From the mid-1990s until her death, Ride led two public-outreach programs for NASA—the [[ISS EarthKAM]] and [[MoonKAM|GRAIL MoonKAM]] projects, in cooperation with NASA's [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] and UCSD. The programs allowed middle school students to request images of the Earth and the Moon.<ref>{{cite web |title=About EarthKAM |url=https://earthkam.ucsd.edu/about |publisher=[[University of California, San Diego]] |access-date=July 24, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729152535/https://earthkam.ucsd.edu/about |archive-date=July 29, 2012 |url-status=dead |year=2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=About GRAIL MoonKAM |url=http://moonkam.ucsd.edu/about/moonkam |publisher=[[University of California, San Diego]] |access-date=July 24, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120801031504/https://moonkam.ucsd.edu/about/moonkam |archive-date=August 1, 2012 |year=2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Ride bought a house in [[La Jolla, California]], and O'Shaughnessy moved in after taking up a teaching position at [[San Diego Mesa College]].<ref name="Sherr2014" />{{rp|p=237}} She turned down offers from President [[Bill Clinton]] to become [[NASA Administrator]], not wanting to leave California, but did agree to serve on the [[President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology|President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology]] (PCAST). This involved flying to Washington, D.C., every few months for studies and presentations. Due to the experience at CISAC, Clinton appointed her to a PCAST panel chaired by [[John Holdren]] to assess the risk of [[fissile]] materials being stolen in Russia and ending up in the hands of terrorists.<ref name="Sherr2014" />{{rp|pp=249–250}}

{{Quote box|width=30em|bgcolor=|align=left|author=Sally Ride<ref name="64th birthday"/>|quote=Everywhere I go I meet girls and boys who want to be astronauts and explore space, or they love the ocean and want to be oceanographers, or they love animals and want to be zoologists, or they love designing things and want to be engineers. I want to see those same stars in their eyes in 10 years and know they are on their way.}}
From September 1999 to July 2000, Ride was the president of the space news website, [[Space.com]], a company that aggregated news about science and space on its website.<ref name="Sherr2014" />{{rp|pp=257–260}} She then became the president and CEO of [[Sally Ride Science]], a company she co-founded with O'Shaughnessy, who served as the chief executive officer and chair of the board.<ref name="obit"/><ref name="SallyRideScienceTeam">{{cite web |title=Team |url=https://sallyridescience.ucsd.edu/about/team/ |website=[[Sally Ride Science]] |publisher=[[University of California, San Diego]] |access-date=December 11, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505180313/https://sallyridescience.ucsd.edu/about/team/ |archive-date=May 5, 2021 |year=2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> Sally Ride Science created entertaining science programs and publications for upper elementary and middle school students, with a particular focus on girls.<ref name="post">{{cite news |last1=Majors |first1=Dan |title=Sally Ride touts science careers for women |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/business/auto/2007/09/26/Sally-Ride-touts-science-careers-for-women/stories/200709260196 |access-date=October 7, 2007 |newspaper=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]  |date=September 26, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505132801/https://www.post-gazette.com/business/auto/2007/09/26/Sally-Ride-touts-science-careers-for-women/stories/200709260196 |archive-date=May 5, 2021 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="al-com-blast-off">{{cite web |last1=Busby |first1=Guy |title=Sally Ride program blasts kids into science |url=https://www.al.com/pr-community-news/2012/07/sally_ride_program_blasts_kids.html |website=AL.com – Alabama  |access-date=May 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505133602/https://www.al.com/pr-community-news/2012/07/sally_ride_program_blasts_kids.html |archive-date=May 5, 2021 |location=Mobile, Alabama |date=January 14, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> It moved to the University of California, San Diego, in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schaffhauser |first=Dian |date=October 28, 2015 |title=Sally Ride STEM Program Moves to UC San Diego |url=https://thejournal.com/articles/2015/10/28/sally-ride-stem-program-moves-to-uc-san-diego.aspx |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=THE Journal }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Tatro |first=Samantha |date=2015-10-28 |title=Sally Ride Science Finds New Home at UC San Diego |url=https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sally-ride-science-finds-new-home-at-uc-san-diego/1986336/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=NBC 7 San Diego }}</ref> Ride and O'Shaughnessy co-wrote six books on space aimed at children, with the goal of encouraging children to study science.<ref name="pr">{{Cite press release|url=https://www.sallyridescience.com/node/206|title=Sally Ride Science Brings Cutting-Edge Science to the Classroom with New Content Rich Classroom Sets|access-date=October 7, 2007|publisher=Sally Ride Science|date=September 27, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010175206/http://sallyridescience.com/node/206|archive-date=October 10, 2007}}</ref><ref name="trib">{{cite news |last1=Heinrichs |first1=Allison M. |title=Sally Ride encourages girls to engineer careers |url=https://archive.triblive.com/news/sally-ride-encourages-girls-to-engineer-careers/ |access-date=October 7, 2007 |newspaper=[[Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]] |date=September 26, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416054812/http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_529380.html |archive-date=April 16, 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Susan |last=Okie |date=July 27, 2012 |title=My friend Sally Ride's final mission: Making science cool  |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/my-friend-sally-rides-final-mission-making-science-cool/2012/07/27/gJQAqXVJEX_story.html |access-date=July 28, 2022}}</ref>

In 2003, Ride served on the [[Columbia Accident Investigation Board|''Columbia'' Accident Investigation Board]], and was the only person to serve on both the panel that investigated the ''Challenger'' disaster and the one that investigated the [[Space Shuttle Columbia disaster|''Columbia'' disaster]].<ref name="Sherr2014" />{{rp|pp=279–285}}<ref name="columbiareportvol1">{{cite book |author1=Gehman, Harold W. Jr. |author2=Barry, John L. |author3=Deal, Duane W. |author4=Hallock, James N. |author5=Hess, Kenneth W. |author6=Hubbard, G. Scott |author7=Logsdon, John M. |author8=Ohseroff, Douglas D. |author9=Ride, Sally K.|author10=Tetrault, Roger E. |author11=Turcotte, Stephen A. |author12=Wallace, Steven B. |author13=Widnall, Sheila E. |author1-link=Harold W. Gehman Jr. |author4-link=James N. Hallock |author6-link=G. Scott Hubbard |author7-link=John Logsdon |author8-link=Douglas Osheroff |author9-link=Sally Ride |author11-link=Stephen A. Turcotte |author13-link=Sheila Widnall |title=Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report |volume=I |date=August 2003 |publisher=[[Columbia Accident Investigation Board]] |location=[[Arlington County, Virginia]] |page=7 |url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20030066167/downloads/20030066167.pdf |access-date=May 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505113049/https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20030066167/downloads/20030066167.pdf |archive-date=May 5, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> She endorsed [[Barack Obama]] for president in 2008,<ref name="Space politics">{{cite web |last1=Foust |first1=Jeff |title=Sally Ride endorses Obama |url=http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/10/29/sally-ride-endorses-obama/ |website=Space Politics |access-date=June 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505173301/http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/10/29/sally-ride-endorses-obama/ |archive-date=May 5, 2021 |date=October 29, 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="sentinel-ride-2008">{{cite news |last1=Ride |first1=Sally |title=Inspired kids will reach for stars under Obama |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2008-10-29-opride29-story.html |access-date=May 11, 2015 |newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]]  |date=October 29, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023023614/https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2008-10-29-opride29-story.html |archive-date=October 23, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> and was contacted by [[Lori Garver]], the head of Barack Obama's transition team for NASA in 2008, but once again made it clear that she was not interested in the post of NASA administrator. She served on the board of the [[National Math and Science Initiative]] in 2007 and the Educate to Innovate initiative in 2009, and was a member of the [[Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee]], which conducted an independent review of American space policy requested by the [[Office of Science and Technology Policy]] (OSTP) on May 7, 2009.<ref name="Sherr2014" />{{rp|pp=285–287}}<ref name="hearing111-51">{{cite web |author1=One Hundred Eleventh Congress |author1-link=111th United States Congress |title=Hearing 111–51: Options and Issues for Nasa's Human Space Flight Program: Report of the "Review of U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans" Committee |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-111hhrg51928/pdf/CHRG-111hhrg51928.pdf  |publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office]] |access-date=May 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506062048/https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-111hhrg51928/pdf/CHRG-111hhrg51928.pdf |archive-date=May 6, 2021 |location=United States Capitol |date=September 15, 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref>