Thursday, July 26, 2012

Sally Ride: One big step for humankind

At the PBS Newshour website, a post by Miles O'Brien about one of his encounters with the late Dr. Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. He writes about the night of January 28, 2003, when Dr. Ride knocked on theNASA | Sally Ride | I'm sad to write that Dr. Sally Ride, the first US female astronaut to go into space, has died of pancreatic cancer. NASA has a wonderful page in tribute to thi.Sally Ride's untimely death from pancreatic cancer has put the deadly cancer back in the spotlight. Because there is no good screening method, pancreatic cancer is often not detected

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