Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: 1  intermediate(adj) a substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained. 2  intermediate(adj) lying between two extremes in time or space or state. 3  average, intermediate, medium(verb) around the middle of a scale of evaluation.
Sally Kristen Ride (born May 26, 1951) is an American former astronaut who in 1983 became the first American woman to reach outer space. Sally Ride is the most bravest American woman I have ever heard of. Because I really would not do that, but I think it would be fun and really being an astronaut â¦.
She was 61. The cause was pancreatic cancer, her company, Sally Ride Science, announced on its Web site. Dr. Ride, a physicist who was accepted into the space program in 1978 after she answered a newspaper ad for astronauts, flew on the shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983, and on a second mission in 1984.