Sally Ride: Sally Ride, American Hero: This Is What a Lesbian Looks Like

The cause was pancreatic cancer, her company, Sally Ride Science, announced on its Web site. Dr. Ride, a physicist who was accepted into the space program in 1978 after she answered a newspaper ad for astronauts, flew on the shuttle Challenger onSally Ride didn't just burst through the glass ceiling—she touched the sky beyond it. Upon hearing that the first American woman to go into space had died today at 61 after battling pancreatic cancer, the worlds of entertainment, politics,

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