Sally Ride: Sally Ride chose privacy over gay causes

She and Ride wrote several books together, and O'Shaughnessy was also chief operating officer and executive vice president of Ride's company, Sally Ride Science, where girls receive encouragement to learn about engineering, math, science andSally Ride was very private, but she inspired a generation of female scientists with her historic shuttle flight in 1983. Sally Ride, a physicist, proved that women could be equal partners with men in space. By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press / July

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