Historic counties of England the Morecambe Bay tidal flats. When the first county councils were set up in 1889, they covered newly created entities known as administrative counties. Several historic subdivisions with separate county administrations were also created administrative counties, particularly the separate ridings of Yorkshire, the separate parts of Lincolnshire, and East and West Sussex. The Local Government Act 1888 also contained wording to create both a new "administrative county" and "county" of London, and to ensure that the county boroughs which were created at the same time continued for non-administrative purposes to be part of the county which they had previously formed
Holly Ridings was responsible for the safety of the International Space Station crew during the SpaceX Dragon Demo. In September 2018 Ridings was announced as the chief flight director at NASA. She is responsible for 32 flight directors who are overseeing human spaceflight. She will oversee missions to the International Space Station, the Orion spacecraft as well as integrating trips of commercial crew spacecraft. Ridings won the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal for Expedition 16 and the SpaceX Dragon Mission. Holly Ridings Holly Elizabeth Ridings (born 25 December, 1973) is an American mechanical engineer and the first woman to be chief flight director