Tuesday, July 24, 2012

First US woman in space, Sally Ride, dies at 61
[ Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:13:44 GMT ]

Astronaut Sally Ride monitors control panels from the pilot's chair on the flight deck of the space shuttle Challenger during her historic space mission in 1983. Floating in front of her is a flight procedures notebook. Ride died on Monday after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. The first American woman to go into space, Sally Ride, died Monday after a 17-month battle against pancreatic cancer, her company said.


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