Sally Ride Will Not Be Down For Breakfast

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Sally Ride Will Not Be Down For Breakfast

Post by hobie16 » Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:04 pm

First American woman to fly in space. Dead at 61 of pancreatic cancer.


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Re: Sally Ride Will Not Be Down For Breakfast

Post by CBeilby » Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:17 pm

Ms. Ride was something of a hero to the Cuddlebug (she wants to be an astronaut and astrophysicist.) I'm wondering, now, how we're going to break the news to her.


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Re: Sally Ride Will Not Be Down For Breakfast

Post by Zazu » Mon Jul 23, 2012 10:18 pm

CBeilby wrote:Ms. Ride was something of a hero to the Cuddlebug (she wants to be an astronaut and astrophysicist.) I'm wondering, now, how we're going to break the news to her.
Space travel is dangerous. Sometimes in ways obvious, sometimes in ways subtle. The radiation exposure makes cancer more likely in astronauts than in those of us who keep to a lower orbit.

This is one of the reasons why astronauts are often called heroes, despite what turn out to be often mundane duties in space.

And an early death is occasionally the price of glory.


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Re: Sally Ride Will Not Be Down For Breakfast

Post by GaTechGal » Tue Jul 24, 2012 7:14 am

Sally Ride was such an inspiration to a generation of Tech girls. She literally broke through that glass ceiling at NASA. She'll be missed but not forgotten.


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Re: Sally Ride Will Not Be Down For Breakfast

Post by Main Streeter » Tue Jul 24, 2012 7:20 am

A post from a friend which is meaningful.

We Lost an Inspiration.

...She slipped the Surly Bonds of Earth...
...may she dance the Skies on Laughter-Silvered Wings...
..Ride, Sally Ride...



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Re: Sally Ride Will Not Be Down For Breakfast

Post by DisneyMom » Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:58 am

The News said she was from our San Fernando Valley....Such a great life! We'll miss you Sally :(


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Re: Sally Ride Will Not Be Down For Breakfast

Post by CBeilby » Tue Jul 24, 2012 2:40 pm

Another reason to be proud of Dr. Ride is that she had the courage to come out, even if it was in her obituary. Even in this day and age, that's not an easy thing to do.


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