North Riding of Yorkshire North Riding of Yorkshire The North Riding of Yorkshire is one of the three historic subdivisions (ridings) of the English county of Yorkshire, alongside the East and West ridings. From the Restoration it was used as a lieutenancy area, having been part of the Yorkshire lieutenancy previously. The three ridings were treated as three counties for many purposes, such as having separate quarter sessions. An administrative county was created with a county council in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888 on the historic boundaries. In 1974 both the administrative county and the Lieutenancy of the North Riding of Yorkshire
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