Sally Ride R.I.P.
A great role model is gone...
Monday, July 23, 2012 by DrJBHL | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Sally Ride was a role model for a generation of women.
She was a heroine. The real stuff, with true grit.
Sally Ride was America's first female astronaut, with her first mission in June, 1983. She was one of 8,000 people answering the newspaper add for applicants to the NASA program.
Ride has received numerous awards, including the National Space Society's von Braun Award, the Lindbergh Eagle, and the NCAA's Theodore Roosevelt Award. She has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame and the Astronaut Hall of Fame, and has twice been awarded the NASA Space Flight Medal. Ride is the only person to serve on both of the panels investigating Shuttle accidents (those for the Challenger accident and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster). Two elementary schools in the United States are named after her: Sally K. Ride Elementary School in The Woodlands, Texas, and Sally K. Ride Elementary School in Germantown, Maryland.
On December 6, 2006, then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Ride into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.
Sally Ride died today. She lost her 18 month battle with Pancreatic Cancer.
Rest in peace, Sally... you were a true heroine.
Reply #5 Tuesday, July 24, 2012 10:42 AM
always wanted to be an astronaut when I was little, growing up in the midst of the space race.... what a heroine she is....
so young... should have been telling those many stories she'd have, for a long time to come.... 
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Reply #1 Monday, July 23, 2012 6:34 PM
Bummer. Pancreatic cancer took my oldest sister. It isn't pretty.
RIP Sally.