Sally Ride: 1951-2012
Sally K. Ride, the first U.S. woman to travel into space, died on Monday after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, according to her organization, Sally Ride Science, in San Diego. She was 61. Ride, a physicist, blasted off in the U.S. space shuttle “Challenger” on June 18, 1983. “Sally’s historic flight into space captured…