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BREAKING NEWS: Sally Ride, first American woman to fly in space, dies from pancreatic cancer
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Posted on 07/23/2012 4:08:22 PM PDT by Perdogg

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To: Trueblackman
Shero...I like it.

RIP and thanks for your bravery and spirit, Ms Ride.

21 posted on 07/23/2012 4:28:05 PM PDT by Dysart (You didn't post that. Someone else made that happen.)
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To: Perdogg

The heroes of my era are going beyond the veil, one by one.


22 posted on 07/23/2012 4:28:55 PM PDT by arderkrag (ABOs are Romneybot trolls. LOOKING FOR ROLEPLAYERS. Check Profile.)
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To: Doogle
What an amazing spirit she had.

She showed everyone you can have great hair in space.

Godspeed Sally.

23 posted on 07/23/2012 4:31:16 PM PDT by Musketeer
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To: kabar
she was the first gay astronaut.

She was gay? Wow. I can never remember it being mentioned when she was active in the space program, or after she retired.

Not that it mattered or should have mattered...

24 posted on 07/23/2012 4:34:00 PM PDT by ssaftler (11/6/2012: Time to repeal our One Bad-Ass Mistake, America.)
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To: Perdogg

I remember her going into space. Had no idea she had cancer. RIP


25 posted on 07/23/2012 4:34:20 PM PDT by Morgana (This space for rent. Cheap.)
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To: VanDeKoik
Had no idea she had cancer.

Pancreatic cancer is usually fatal in a short period of time. By the time it's discovered, it's spread throughout the body.

26 posted on 07/23/2012 4:37:29 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: kabar
First GAY in space? Why was it important for you to bring her sex life into a thread meant to pay respect. You really make me sick you sorry SOB. Begone with you.
27 posted on 07/23/2012 4:40:21 PM PDT by Musketeer
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To: Perdogg

17 months is one heck of a fight when it comes to pancreatic cancer. She was a brave soul, and obviously a real fighter. I hope she rests in peace.


28 posted on 07/23/2012 4:41:04 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Perdogg

She inspired our 3rd daughter to apply for astronaut training. Alas, there were 30,000+ applications for a hundred or so openings and our daughter does not have her PhD.

Never-the-less she helped build a laboratory module that is now on the Space Station. And she is currently a systems engineer on the Orion Capsule!

Thank you, Sally Ride!


29 posted on 07/23/2012 4:43:47 PM PDT by BwanaNdege (Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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To: Perdogg
Oh, no. Sally Ride. She was such a hero to me.

Rest in peace, brave lady

30 posted on 07/23/2012 4:44:30 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Musketeer
Why should it be a negative if in fact she was gay? It matters not the least to me. I just found it interesting when they listed her suvivors they mentioned her partner of 27 years along with her family members.

They may have just been business partners or more than that. You are the one with a problem.

31 posted on 07/23/2012 4:45:22 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Cementjungle
Yeesh, I have been hearing of many bouts of PC recently.

That said, my daughter got to meet her at ASU at a special spend the day with her kind of thing. I think she was about 9.

32 posted on 07/23/2012 4:45:45 PM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: Perdogg

Wow, that sucks. God bless her.


33 posted on 07/23/2012 4:46:09 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: kabar

She never made it an issue, never tried to advance the agenda, so it won’t make any difference to me whom she lived with.


34 posted on 07/23/2012 4:48:39 PM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: Perdogg

I always think of her when I hear the line from the song “Mustang Sally,”
all you want to do is ride around Sally,
ride Sally Ride!

Oh, well, yet another person to be proud of
when we *had* a space program.


35 posted on 07/23/2012 4:51:51 PM PDT by QuestingElf
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To: riri
That said, my daughter got to meet her at ASU at a special spend the day with her kind of thing. I think she was about 9

A big part of astronauts' lives are serving as "ambassadors" or mentors for the younger generations. Just meeting someone like that can change a kid's trajectory.

I was lucky enough to have had a 5 minute conversation with Alan Shepard a few months after his moonwalk... it was like getting injected with some sort of drug designed to make me more interested in science.

36 posted on 07/23/2012 4:52:56 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: dfwgator

Sally Ride endorses Obama

October 29, 2008


37 posted on 07/23/2012 4:53:15 PM PDT by Selene
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To: riri
Yeesh, I have been hearing of many bouts of PC recently.

There has been speculation diet pop with asparatame is an issue. Researchers are finding people who drank a lot of diet soda's are coming down with PC at higher levels.

38 posted on 07/23/2012 4:54:54 PM PDT by trailhkr1
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To: QuestingElf

I was in a band in the late 80’s to mid 90’s that used to play that ( a bar band staple ) . Whenever we played in the Clear Lake area (NASA hdq., the audience would sing just a bit louder. Good stuff.


39 posted on 07/23/2012 4:55:29 PM PDT by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free....)
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To: pops88
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.

Interesting "Burgh" connection there. BTW, Professor Randy Pausch from CMU passed away from the same disease too a few years ago.
40 posted on 07/23/2012 5:02:20 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (June 28th, 2012, the Day America Jumped The Shark.)
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