Author Topic: Ride, Sally Ride. RIP (Read 2336 times)

240 is Back · « **on:** July 23, 2012, 03:18:42 PM »

Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel into space, died Monday at the age of 61, the Associated Press reported.

The cause of death was pancreatic cancer, according to a statement posted on the website of Sally Ride Science, a science education company she founded in 2001. She had been battling the disease for 17 months.

On June 18, 1983, Ride became the first American woman to fly in space when she blasted off on the Challenger as part of the STS-7 crew, according to NASA.

She flew her second shuttle mission on October 5, 1984, again aboard the Challenger. That mission, STS-41G, was the first shuttle crew to include two women.

After she retired from NASA in 1987, Ride became a member of the faculty of the University of California, San Diego and the California Space Institute, according to a statement posted to Sally Ride Science.

According to its website, Sally Ride Science is "dedicated to supporting girls’ and boys’ interests in science, math and technology."

Ride is survived by her partner Tam O’Shaughnessy, as well as her mother, sister, niece and nephew.

tu_holmes · « **Reply #1 on:** July 23, 2012, 03:32:34 PM »

Trailblazer for chicks... Too bad most other women are not in her league at all.

Obviously a lesbian back then... How could you not tell?

polychronopolous · « **Reply #2 on:** July 23, 2012, 03:39:11 PM »

"Heaven has an Astronaut Angel"

bradistani · « **Reply #3 on:** July 23, 2012, 03:45:37 PM »

i rememeber her going up.. seems like yesterday. cancer is a bitch !

arce1988 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 23, 2012, 03:46:13 PM »

RIP

Rudee · « **Reply #5 on:** July 23, 2012, 03:52:09 PM »

Quote from: polychronopolous on July 23, 2012, 03:39:11 PM

"Heaven has a Lesbian Astronaut Angel"

fixed.

TrapsMcLats · « **Reply #6 on:** July 23, 2012, 04:23:16 PM »

This is why society is fucked up... sally ride, a mother fucking astrosaut, the best of the best, a literal one in a billion, won't receive 1/10th of the press that whitney houston, a crack head, black trash, singer got.

_bruce_ · « **Reply #7 on:** July 23, 2012, 04:27:02 PM »

Quote from: TrapsMcLats on July 23, 2012, 04:23:16 PM

This is why society is fucked up... sally ride, a mother fucking astrosaut, the best of the best, a literal one in a billion, won't receive 1/10th of the press that whitney houston, a crack head, black trash, singer got.

Sad.

Viking11 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 23, 2012, 04:46:08 PM »

That sucks. RIP

Hulkotron · « **Reply #9 on:** July 23, 2012, 07:32:04 PM »

You know she humped at least one of the male astronauts up there just to see what zero-g humping was like.

polychronopolous · « **Reply #10 on:** July 23, 2012, 07:34:22 PM »

Quote from: Hulkotron on July 23, 2012, 07:32:04 PM

You know she humped at least one of the male astronauts up there just to see what zero-g humping was like.

Yeah, he probably tossed her up and spun her around like an egg.

viking1 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 23, 2012, 07:36:09 PM »

Quote from: polychronopolous on July 23, 2012, 07:34:22 PM

Yeah, he probably tossed her up and spun her around like an egg.

HTexan · « **Reply #12 on:** July 23, 2012, 10:04:49 PM »

I thought this thread was about ford mustangs

The Abdominal Snoman · « **Reply #13 on:** July 23, 2012, 10:15:57 PM »

Looks like she dodged a bullet by not going up in the 1986 Space Shuttle.

RIP

The Abdominal Snoman · « **Reply #14 on:** July 23, 2012, 10:18:28 PM »

Quote from: TrapsMcLats on July 23, 2012, 04:23:16 PM

This is why society is fucked up... sally ride, a mother fucking astrosaut, the best of the best, a literal one in a billion, won't receive 1/10th of the press that whitney houston, a crack head, black trash, singer got.

Astronaut, Lisa Nowak kind of disproves the notion that Astrosauts are the best of the best

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Nowak

kawaks · « **Reply #15 on:** July 23, 2012, 11:55:35 PM »

Quote from: TrapsMcLats on July 23, 2012, 04:23:16 PM

This is why society is fucked up... sally ride, a mother fucking astrosaut, the best of the best, a literal one in a billion, won't receive 1/10th of the press that whitney houston, a crack head, black trash, singer got.

Best of the best we not forget another female astro chick who Fxxcked up her ex-hubbys girlfriend on a cross country mission of mayhem!

Alex23 · « **Reply #16 on:** July 24, 2012, 12:00:17 AM »

Quote from: tu_holmes on July 23, 2012, 03:32:34 PM

Trailblazer for chicks... Too bad most other women are not in her league at all.

Obviously a lesbian back then... How could you not tell?

.. I can but would've still hit... I guess I'm one of a kind.... so was she.

GODSPEED. for real this time.

Dr Dutch · « **Reply #17 on:** July 24, 2012, 12:14:57 AM »

She actually applied for the astronaut job after reading a NASA ad in a newspaper...

RIP

TrapsMcLats · « **Reply #18 on:** July 24, 2012, 03:54:24 PM »

Fucking Mr. Jefferson is getting more press in death than sally ride. ridiculous.

King Shizzo · « **Reply #19 on:** July 24, 2012, 03:56:05 PM »

Quote from: TrapsMcLats on July 24, 2012, 03:54:24 PM

Fucking Mr. Jefferson is getting more press in death than sally ride. ridiculous.

Anyone with a name like Sally Ride, doesn't deserve press.

Parker · « **Reply #20 on:** July 24, 2012, 03:57:43 PM »

Quote from: TrapsMcLats on July 23, 2012, 04:23:16 PM

This is why society is fucked up... sally ride, a mother fucking astrosaut, the best of the best, a literal one in a billion, won't receive 1/10th of the press that whitney houston, a crack head, black trash, singer got.

Sad, but as someone put it soo bluntly, "You have to be crazy to go up in space"
this was said after that astronaut chick drove hundreds of miles wearing a diaper to eff up her estranged husband.

TrapsMcLats · « **Reply #21 on:** July 24, 2012, 05:34:21 PM »

Quote from: Parker on July 24, 2012, 03:57:43 PM

Sad, but as someone put it soo bluntly, "You have to be crazy to go up in space"
this was said after that astronaut chick drove hundreds of miles wearing a diaper to eff up her estranged husband.

anyone can go crazy... but you do have to be a little fearless to sit on top of a controlled explosion that shoots you into space.