RIP - Sally Ride - first American woman in space

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Sally Ride, the first American woman to journey into space, died on Monday after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, her foundation announced. She was [only] 61.

Ride first launched into space in 1983 aboard the Challenger shuttle, taking part in the seventh mission of US space shuttle program.
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http://news.yahoo.com/sally-ride-first-us-woman-space-dead-61-212809122.html
 
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Ride, Sally Ride. RIP. I always like her name, being a musician. :cry:

Pancreatic cancer can be insidious and hard to treat (my bother-in-law died from it). He lived long enough to see his 4 kids graduate from HS, and then it roared back and spread everywhere and took him down in short order.
 
I am sure she inspired so many young woman to dream of being scientists. Rest In Peace Sally.
 
Good night, and god speed Dr. Ride.

And thank you for introducing the big space hair look.

It always made me smile. :smile:

http://abcnewsradioonline.com/storage/news-images/Getty_072312_SallyRide.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1343078653203​
 
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Perhaps as sad as her death itself is some of the crap surrounding it. I just heard on "Inner Space" that her wife might be denied benefits because of some idiotic policy about same-sex couples. It's always nice to see how the USA treats its heros if they don't conform.
 
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Perhaps as sad as her death itself is some of the crap surrounding it. I just heard on "Inner Space" that her wife might be denied benefits because of some idiotic policy about same-sex couples. It's always nice to see how the USA treats its heros if they don't conform.

Well that's just stupid, and just days after the first progressive marriage on a military base.

But I never even knew she had a girlfriend.

Her wife sounds nice.

O'Shaughnessy, a professor emerita of school psychology at San Diego State University, is also chief operating officer and executive vice president of Ride's foundation, Sally Ride Science, where the duo and their staff nurtured young students and worked to encourage them to pursue their passions in science, technology, engineering and math.

Like Ride, O'Shaughnessy was interested in science from a very young age, and "one of her favorite childhood memories is of watching tadpoles in a creek gradually sprout legs, go green and turn into frogs," according to her bio on the Sally Ride Science website.