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In this Oct. 7, 2009 file photo, former Astronaut Sally Ride speaks to members of the media as NASA personnel set-up astronomy equipment on the South Lawn of the White House in preparation for an event with the President and the First Lady, in Washington. Ride, the first American woman in space, died Monday, July 23, 2012 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 61. -
FILE - In this July 28, 2009 file photo, former astronaut Dr. Sally Ride, with Jeffrey Greason in the background, comments during a public meeting of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee, in League City, Texas. Ride, the first American woman in space, died Monday, July 23, 2012 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 61. -
In this June 1983 file photo provided by NASA, astronaut Sally K. Ride, STS-7 mission specialist, communicates with ground controllers from the mid-deck of the earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger. Ride, the first American woman in space, died Monday, July 23, 2012 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 61. -
In this June 1983 photo released by NASA, astronaut Sally Ride, a specialist on shuttle mission STS-7, monitors control panels from the pilot's chair on the shuttle Columbia flight deck. Ride, the first American woman in space, died Monday, July 23, 2012 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 61. -
Cape Canaveral: Sally Ride smiles as she walks to the launch pad 6/18, to become America's first woman to go inot space. Behind her is Norman Thagard, and on the right in John Fabian. -
An undated photo released by NASA shows astronaut Sally Ride. Ride, the first American woman in space, will be inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame, hall officials announced Friday, Dec. 15, 2006. (AP Photo/ NASA) -
President Clinton prepares to sign a memorandum ordering federally run schools for Indians and military families to comply with a federal ban on sexual discrimination during a ceremony in the Old Executive Office Building in Washington Tuesday, June 17, 1997, where he celebrated the 25th anniversary of Title IX. Looking on from left are: U.S. Presidential Scholar Anne Jarvis Jefferson of Winona, Minn.; Dr. Nelba Chavez of Silver Spring, Md.; OIympic athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee; former astronaut Sally Ride; and woman program director Verelett Allen of Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds) -
RIDE WITH THE ANGELS -- Dr. Sally Ride, first American woman in outer space, makes a special guest appearance to offer support to a female astronaut (guest star Sherry Stringfield) who is about to embark on a dangerous space mission, on the season finale of TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL, Sunday, May 23 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. -
Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, is shown while talking with members of the Nevada Women's Fund in Reno, Nev., Tuesday, May 13, 2003. Ride on Tuesday said it's ``unfortunate'' Annika Sorenstam is being criticized for trying to become the first woman to compete on the PGA Tour in 58 years. ``It is a little bit surprising,'' Ride said Tuesday before a speech to the Nevada Women's Fund. (AP Photo/ Debra Reid)
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