Read the paragraph from "Who Was Sally Ride?" What Did Sally Ride Do After Leaving NASA? Sally retired from NASA in 1987. However, she was quickly back at work as a professor at the University of California San Diego. She also looked for new ways to encourage women and girls to study science and mathematics. She came up with the idea for NASA's EarthKAM project. The project lets middle school students select, shoot, download and study photos of Earth using a camera on the International Space Station. Question 1 Part A What is the meaning of retired as it appears in the paragraph? left a career on purpose explored options used a different approach conducted research