Thursday, July 26, 2012
Sally Ride joins Amelia Earhart as icon of flight
Amelia Earhart, the famed aviatrix is best remembered for the mystery surrounding her 1937 disappearance – and by the way, Google is honoring her today with a birthday doodle. But Earhart's views about gender equality are arguably as noteworthy as herIronically, news of Ride's death in La Jolla, Calif., on Monday reached us the day before what would have been the 115th birthday of another American aviation pioneer - Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, which earned herToday would have been Amelia Earhart's 115th birthday. Seventy-five years after
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