All right. Thanks for coming. I am joel what the Washington Post. The library of congress is one of the sponsors of this and i can report that last night i sat on my porch and beautiful washington evening and just loved the book you are going to hear about written by lynn she sherr, a longtime correspondent for abc news and for the newsmagazine 2020 about sally ride. Sally sally ride americas first woman in space. This book is a barnburner. It has several narrative threads that are utterly captivating. Its not just about an astronaut. Sally ride was a physicist, ph. D. Physicist when there werent a lot of women going in to get ph. D. S in physics. She broke down so many barriers. I have three daughters that are all young and i want them all to read this book. This book is about someone who had such an extraordinary life and as a reporter i also admire lin so much because lynn new sally ride. They were friends. Land covered the Space Shuttle program in the 1980s when sally ride made her