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Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel in space, has died at 61.Ride had been fighting pancreatic cancer for 17 months and died peacefully, her company Sally Ride Science announced today (July 23). When she was 32, Ride blasted off on the STS-7 mission of the space shuttle challenger, breaking through the highest glass ceiling for U.S. women to date. During her historic mission, which deployed two communications satellites, Ride also became the first woman to use the shuttle's robotic arm in space. "Michelle and I were deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Sally Ride ," President Obama said in a statement. "As the first American woman to travel into space, Sally was a national hero and a powerful role model." [ Sally Ride: 1st American Woman in Space (Pictures) ]Ride is survived by Tam O'Shaughnessy, her partner of 27 years, who also serves as chief operating officer and executive vice president of Sally Ride Science, a science outreach company Ride founded in 2...
Space pioneer inspired all
Three hundred and thirty American men and women have served as astronauts since the start of NASA's human spaceflight program. Only one is publicly known to have bee...
Pioneering astronaut Sally Ride, who relished privacy, chose an appropriately discreet manner of coming out.At the end of an obituary that she co-wrote with her same...
"Spaceship" Earth has completed another revolution around the sun, and has set off on another 365-day, 583-million-mile (940 million kilometers) journey across time ...
Astronaut Sally Ride, the first U.S. woman in space, died today from pancreatic cancer at the age of 61, according to news reports.As a group, pancreatic cancers com...
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China launched three astronauts into space Saturday (June 16), kicking off an ambitous test mission that marks the country's first attempt to dock a manned spaceship...
A look back at NASA's revolutionary program
Sally Ride helping young women blaze new trails
They've lived with each other for extended periods of time in very close quarters, but that doesn't mean America's astronauts see eye-to-eye.As President Obama prepa...
A pair of twin gravity-mapping moon probes ended their science mission today (Dec. 17) by becoming intimately familiar with the pull of the natural satellite.The was...
A NASA probe recorded a spectacular flyover video of the moon's far side shortly before intentionally slamming into a lunar mountain last month.NASA's Ebb spacecraft...
Sally Ride, who blazed trails into orbit as the first American woman in space, died Monday of pancreatic cancer. She was 61.Ride died at her home in the San Diego su...
The news of Sally Ride's death yesterday (July 23) has impacted many around the globe, most especially those who traveled directly in her footsteps.Sally Ride became...
Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, has died. She was 61.NASA confirmed her death Monday afternoon and President Barack Obama called her a national...
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 ...
The spot on the lunar surface where NASA intentionally crashed its twin gravity-mapping moon probes today (Dec. 17) has been named after the late Sally Ride, America...
First American woman in space
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