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Sally Ride, first US woman in space dead at 61 - Yahoo! News

Sally Ride, first US woman in space dead at 61 - Yahoo! News


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Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas: On board Scene-Astronaut Sally K. Ride, STS-7 mission specialist, communicates with ground controllers from the flight deck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger. Dr. Ride holds a tape recorder. The photograph was taken by one of her four fellow crewmembers with a 35mm camera. (Bettmann/CORBIS)

Trailblazing astronaut Sally Ride dies

The first American woman to travel into space had been battling cancer for 17 months.

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