From Fox News: 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 suburb of La Jolla, said Terry
McEntee, a spokeswoman for her company, Sally Ride Science. She was a
private person and the details of her illness were kept to just a few
people, she said.
Ride rode into space on the space shuttle Challenger in 1983 when she
was 32. After her flight, more than 42 other American women flew in
space, NASA said.
"Sally was a national hero and a powerful role model. She inspired
generations of young girls to reach for the stars," President Barack
Obama said in a statement.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, a former astronaut, said Ride
"broke barriers with grace and professionalism -- and literally changed
the face of America's space program."
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