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BREAKING NEWS: Sally Ride, first American woman to fly in space, dies from pancreatic cancer
NBC News.com ^

Posted on 07/23/2012 4:08:22 PM PDT by Perdogg

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KEYWORDS: cancer; homosexualagenda; nasa; obit; obituary; pancreaticcancer; pioneers; rip; sallyride; space; women
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1 posted on 07/23/2012 4:08:30 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

I actually got to meet her once. She was my hero and my role model when I was young.

So sad!


2 posted on 07/23/2012 4:10:17 PM PDT by Marie ("The last time Democrats gloated this hard after a health care victory, they lost 60 House seats.")
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To: Perdogg

RIP


3 posted on 07/23/2012 4:11:50 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Perdogg

How utterly sad. Another bright light has moved on.

Long live the pioneers.

I have a NASA Mission patch from one of the flights she was on...STS-7, I believe.


4 posted on 07/23/2012 4:12:07 PM PDT by SueRae (See it? Hell, I can TASTE November from my house!)
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To: Perdogg

So who’s fault? The Tea Party or Bush’s?


5 posted on 07/23/2012 4:12:45 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Perdogg

*sigh*

Those astronauts in the 80s were really big heroes of mine, especially Sally Ride.

Had no idea she had cancer.


6 posted on 07/23/2012 4:12:55 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Perdogg

https://www.sallyridescience.com/sallyride/bio


7 posted on 07/23/2012 4:13:47 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Perdogg
She was a true American pioneer.

RIP

8 posted on 07/23/2012 4:14:06 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." Hussein Obama, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009)
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To: Perdogg

RIP

9 posted on 07/23/2012 4:14:43 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Perdogg

Aww. Hope she is space from a totally different angle now.


10 posted on 07/23/2012 4:16:07 PM PDT by DallasDeb (usafa06mom)
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To: Perdogg

Aww. Hope she is seeing space from a totally different angle now.


11 posted on 07/23/2012 4:16:24 PM PDT by DallasDeb (usafa06mom)
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To: Perdogg

True Shero!


12 posted on 07/23/2012 4:16:36 PM PDT by Trueblackman (I would rather lose on Conservative principles than vote for a RINO candidate.)
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To: Perdogg

Sad news. May her family be comforted.


13 posted on 07/23/2012 4:16:40 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Happy to be represented by Lt. Col. Allen West)
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To: Perdogg

Godspeed.


14 posted on 07/23/2012 4:16:54 PM PDT by dogcaller
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To: SunkenCiv; KevinDavis

ping


15 posted on 07/23/2012 4:17:31 PM PDT by Perdogg (Let's leave reading things in the Constitution that aren't there to liberals and Dems)
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To: Marie

Godspeed, Sally. God bless you and your loved ones.

From a Texan who spent many days up and down NASA Road 1.


16 posted on 07/23/2012 4:19:29 PM PDT by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free....)
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To: Perdogg

RIP brave lady.


17 posted on 07/23/2012 4:21:55 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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To: Perdogg

She’s on a rocket to the fourth dimension. Ride Sally, RIDE!


18 posted on 07/23/2012 4:24:22 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth again.)
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To: Perdogg

Sad. She graduated from CMU, where my father, sister and I went. My first nice car, my “ride,” I named “Sally” after her. Such an awesome woman.


19 posted on 07/23/2012 4:24:36 PM PDT by pops88 (Standing with Breitbart for truth.)
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Great achievements and it appears among her many firsts, she was the first gay astronaut.

In addition to Tam O’Shaughnessy, her partner of 27 years,...

TAM O'SHAUGHNESSY Dr. Tam O'Shaughnessy is the COO and Executive Vice President of Sally Ride Science and a Professor Emerita of School Psychology at San Diego State University.">


20 posted on 07/23/2012 4:27:56 PM PDT by kabar
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