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1. www.nationalgeographic.com › history › articleSee astronaut Sally Ride’s boundary-breaking life in photos

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   Jun 18, 2024 · When pioneering female astronaut Sally Ride died of pancreatic cancer in 2012, a single line in her obituary told the story a lifetime of press coverage and fame had never revealed: her...

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4. www.nbcnews.com › sciencemain › why-sally-rideWhy Sally Ride waited until her death to tell the world she ...

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   Jul 25, 2012 · In life, Sally Ride became famous as America's first woman in space — and in death, she's now added to her fame as the first acknowledged gay astronaut.The revelation came in a low-key way:...

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5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Sally_RideSally Ride - Wikipedia

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   Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982.

6. www.telegraph.co.uk › news › scienceIn pictures: Sally Ride, America's first female astronaut to ...

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   Jul 24, 2012 · America's first female astronaut to enter space on board Nasa's Space Shuttle Challenger has died after a 17-year battle with pancreatic cancer.

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7. www.nytimes.com › 2012/07/24 › scienceSally Ride, Trailblazing Astronaut, Dies at 61 - The New York ...

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   Jul 24, 2012 · Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, died on Monday at her home in San Diego. She was 61. The cause was pancreatic cancer, her company, Sally Ride Science, announced on its...

8. www.pbs.org › newshour › scienceSally Ride, First American Woman in Space, Dies at 61

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   Jul 23, 2012 · Photo by Apic/Getty Images. Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, died on Monday after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 61.

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   How did Sally Ride die?

   • Sally Ride monitors control panels from the pilot’s chair on the flight deck of the Challenger shuttle on June 25, 1983. Floating in front of her is a flight procedures notebook. Photo by Apic/Getty Images. Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, died on Monday after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 61.

   Sally Ride, First American Woman in Space, Dies at 61

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   Who was Sally Ride?

   • "Sally Ride was the first American woman to go into space and she was my big sister. Sally died peacefully on July 23rd after a courageous 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. I was at her side. We grew up in Encino, CA. Our parents, Joyce and Dale Ride, encouraged us to study hard, to do our best and to be anything we wanted to be.

   Why Sally Ride waited until her death to tell the world she was gay

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   Is Sally Ride dead or still alive?

   • "Sally Ride, First American Woman In Space, Dead At 61". Forbes. Jersey City, New Jersey. Archived from the original on May 5, 2021. Retrieved July 23, 2012. ^ Ride, Sally (1978). The interaction of X-rays with the interstellar medium (PhD thesis). Stanford University. Retrieved March 4, 2022. ^ Aceves, Ana V. (August 4, 2016).

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   Was Sally Ride the real thing?

   • Sally Ride was the real stuff. She really was. In every sense of the word, she was the embodiment of what NASA in the post-Apollo era about. If Neil Armstrong represents the embodiment of the pinnacle of the Apollo era, the moon-race era, then Sally Ride is the personification of the shuttle era.

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   How did Sally Ride Impact the space program?

   • Sally Ride's impact on the U.S. space program, and indeed on this country overall, was pervasive. From her pioneering flight as the first U.S. woman in space to her efforts in recent years to stimulate young girls to stay with the study of science, engineering, and math, she was a model citizen.

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   Was Sally Ride the first gay astronaut?

   • In life, Sally Ride became famous as America's first woman in space — and in death, she's now added to her fame as the first acknowledged gay astronaut. The revelation came in a low-key way: Monday's obituary from Sally Ride Science, the educational venture she founded a decade ago, referred to Tam O'Shaughnessy as "her partner of 27 years."

   Why Sally Ride waited until her death to tell the world she was gay

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    Jul 23, 2012 · Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, died Monday (July 23) at the age of 61. Ride made history when she launched aboard the space shuttle Challenger on the STS-7 mission in...