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block  Dr. Sally Ride, the first American woman in space as well
as the youngest American in space and founder of Sally Ride
Science passed away today after a seventeen-month battle with
pancreatic cancer. She was 61 years old. Dr. Ride is survived by
her partner of 27 years, Dr. Tam O’Shaughnessy, who is the COO
and Executive Vice President of Sally Ride Science, along with
her mother, Joyce, and her sister, Bear.  Sally Kristen Ride
earned a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University, and joined
NASA in 1978 in response to a newspaper ad she read. Ride was
aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1983 and became America’s
first woman in space. She took a second trip on the same shuttle
one year later. She left NASA in 1987 for a position at Stanford
University’s 