Prices in the Los Angeles area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), declined 0.3 percent in August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table A .) Regional Commissioner Richard J. Holden noted that the August decrease was influenced by lower prices for gasoline.
NASA officials were reportedly especially impressed with her course on The American Woman which she had developed and taught. Barbara Morgan was the backup Teacher in Space who also trained with NASA in the astronaut training program. Christa McAuliffe was scheduled to teach two lessons from the space shuttle.
Sally Ride. Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 â July 23, 2012) was an American physicist and astronaut. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983. Ride was the third woman in space overall, after USSR cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982).