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IRL (In Real Life) => Current Events => Topic started by: steve58 on July 23, 2012, 04:59:24 PM

Title: America's First Female Astronaut Sally Ride -- RIP
Post by: steve58 on July 23, 2012, 04:59:24 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/23/america-first-female-astronaut-sally-ride-dies/

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/07/sally-ride-first-us-woman-in-space-dies-at-61/1

Looks like it was from cancer...damn disease is going to get us all in the end...
Title: Re: America's First Female Astronaut Sally Ride -- RIP
Post by: LongBlade on July 23, 2012, 05:14:31 PM
What a pioneer. RIP.
Title: Re: America's First Female Astronaut Sally Ride -- RIP
Post by: Staggerwing on July 23, 2012, 05:22:01 PM
Ad Astra, Sally.
Title: Re: America's First Female Astronaut Sally Ride -- RIP
Post by: bob48 on July 23, 2012, 05:34:20 PM
^+1

Very sad.
Title: Re: America's First Female Astronaut Sally Ride -- RIP
Post by: Greybriar on July 23, 2012, 07:07:21 PM
R.I.P. Sally.
Title: Re: America's First Female Astronaut Sally Ride -- RIP
Post by: Centurion40 on July 23, 2012, 09:34:15 PM
Damned cancer.  RIP Sally.
Title: Re: America's First Female Astronaut Sally Ride -- RIP
Post by: Gusington on July 23, 2012, 09:59:51 PM
RIP :(
Title: Re: America's First Female Astronaut Sally Ride -- RIP
Post by: Martok on July 24, 2012, 08:47:06 AM
RIP Ms. Ride.  You'll be missed. 


Title: Re: America's First Female Astronaut Sally Ride -- RIP
Post by: mirth on July 24, 2012, 09:28:30 AM
Sad that she passed at a relatively young age. She was an inspirational person.
Title: Re: America's First Female Astronaut Sally Ride -- RIP
Post by: Barthheart on July 24, 2012, 09:42:57 AM
Quote from: mirth on July 24, 2012, 09:28:30 AM
Sad that she passed at a relatively young age. She was an inspirational person.

Very true, she was an excellent roll model for getting young women into sciences and maths.

Can't help but wonder if the trip to space was a cause of the cancer...... 
Title: Re: America's First Female Astronaut Sally Ride -- RIP
Post by: hammersby on July 28, 2012, 11:16:21 AM
too many heroes dying these days :(
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