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Loving Sally Ride
By Madeline K. Sofia and Brit HansonJun 23, 2021 12:30am (NPR)
In 1983, space shuttle Challenger and the STS-7 crew launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. With the launch, Mission Specialist Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space. Image: NASA
Loving Sally Ride
Tam O'Shaughnessy and Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space — in 1983, aboard the space shuttle Challenger — shared a passion for getting girls involved in STEM. It led them to co-found Sally Ride Science, a company focused on equity and inclusion in science education.
There was much more to O'Shaughnessy and Ride's relationship, however. They met as kids in the early 1960s and developed an instant connection. Years later, they fell in love.
But their relationship remained largely private until after Ride's death in 2012 at age 61. In an interview with Short Wave host Madeline Sofia, O'Shaughnessy remembers how Ride opened the door to that revelation shortly before she died.
O'Shaughnessy says she asked Ride, "Who am I going to be in the world?"
"And she kind of thought about it for a second," O'Shaughnessy remembers. "And she said, you decide. Whatever you decide will be just fine. ...
"Very few people in general knew that she was gay. So it was r
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American physicist and astronaut (1951–2012)
For other uses, see Sally Ride (disambiguation).
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Ride in 1984 | |
| Born | Sally Kristen Ride (1951-05-26)May 26, 1951 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | July 23, 2012(2012-07-23) (aged 61) La Jolla, California, U.S. |
| Education | Swarthmore College University of California, Los Angeles Stanford University (BA, BS, MS, PhD) |
| Spouse | Steven Hawley (m. 1982; div. 1987) |
| Partner | Tam O'Shaughnessy (1985–2012) |
| Awards | Presidential Medal of Freedom (2013, posthumous) |
| Space career | |
Time in space | 14d 7h 46m |
| Selection | NASA Group 8 (1978) |
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Mission insignia | |
| Retirement | August 15, 1987 |
Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonautsValentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. She was the youngest American astronaut to have flown in space, having done so at the age of 32.
Ride was a graduate of Stanford University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and a Ba