Sally Ride, who blazed a trail for women across the sky by becoming the first female American in space, has died at age 61. Ride died Monday after battling pancreatic cancer for 17 months, according to her company, Sally Ride Science.
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Sally Ride's family disclosed in her obituary that she is survived by her partner of 27 years, Tam O'Shaughnessy.
(San Francisco Gate)
It was a name that was also a sentence. And it was what women all over the country were saying to themselves back in 1983, when she broke the highest of all barriers, the stratospheric one.
(Washington Post)
As astronauts go, Sally Ride was a far cry from those chosen for the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. She was not a fighter pilot but a physicist. She wasnt known for fast driving and hard partying.
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Sally Ride broke new ground for American women in 1983 when at the age of 32 she and four crewmates blasted off aboard space shuttle Challenger. She returned to space for a second mission a year later. Former astronaut Sally Ride.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Sally Ride loved everything about space. What she didn't like was being the first American woman to experience it. It took years — if not decades — for her to get comfortable with her galactic status.
(Washington Post)
Today, upon news that Sally Ride, the first woman in space, had passed away, Mitt Romney called her one of Americas great pioneers.
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How does one pay tribute to an icon like Sally Ride? Americas first female astronaut has passed away from pancreatic cancer at the age of 61, a truly tragic loss. To sum up such a loss in words is a challenge (no pun intended).
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