It's been a frustrating day at work and now this news. I haz a sad, big time. :(

/didn't know she was ill

Ride, Sally, ride.

Very sad. My condolences to her family.

Her sister, Bear?

IamSoSmart_S_M_R_T: Are Astronauts at greater risk of contracting cancer?

/First thought I had when I heard she'd passed...even before I knew the cause of death
//NOT a snark
///RIP
I've heard space madness is also a problem.

suthrnrunt: wjmorris3: The first woman in space has loosed the surly bonds of earth and touched the face of God. RIP

huh

High Flight
by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds...and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of...wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up, the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, nor even eagle flew.
And while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space...
...put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

wjmorris3: The first woman in space has loosed the surly bonds of earth and touched the face of God. RIP

Not only is this the quote Reagan used at the Challenger memorial but apparently both of Sally Ride's space flights were actually aboard Challenger.

Jim_Tressel's_O-Face: Ride, Sally, ride.

I'm sure she never got tired of hearing that joke.

RickN99: suthrnrunt: wjmorris3: The first woman in space has loosed the surly bonds of earth and touched the face of God. RIP

huh

High Flight
by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds...and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of...wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up, the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, nor even eagle flew.
And while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space...
...put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

I thought Ronald Reagan wrote that.

Well that must have been rough, hiding in the closet from Nazis and being dead and blind

Girls don't belong in space. There are no sewing machines in space. There are no space dresses. You cannot be pregnant out there. Stay down here where you belong.

Matthew Keene:
I've heard space madness is also a problem.

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LOVE that episode!

"DON'T TOUCH IT!"

What a bummer. 61 is still young. WTF?

World mourns not just a great broad, but a fine piece of ass.

SarcasticFark: It's a sad state of affairs that young women today have no one to look up to like my generation did with Sally Ride. True pioneers of the female persuasion are, sadly, too few and far between.


The USA has put up about 50 female astronauts (most of them for multiple flights). I don't think young girls are hurting for a role model to go into space.

What field are girls lacking pioneers/professionals in ?


Is there some frontier that is still no girls allowed ? honestly. what area is needing a female pioneer ?

DrunkenBob: Stay down here where you belong.

WAT? Are you drunk again?

sleeping martyr: How doth the hero strong and brave, 
A celestial path in the heavens pave.

Go, Sally, Go

Perfect.

Oldiron_79: Well that must have been rough, hiding in the closet from Nazis and being dead and blind

Was this before or after her transatlantic flight?

Sally Ride, first American woman to venture into the final frontier, goes off to explore the undiscovered country.

Godspeed, Space Lady.

Thanks to you irreverent Farkers for helping me smile anyway.

dbaggins: what area is needing a female pioneer ?

The front lines,, if she's capable.

spman: RIP Space Lady

Pancreatic cancer is a biatch, ain't it? No symptoms until it's too late, generally no specific reason why you get it, and a prognosis of 6 - 12 months. That's some scary shiat.

The worst of the worst.

/grateful that it doesn't run in my family
//have friends whose families have been ravaged by it

author1701: Sally Ride, first American woman to venture into the final frontier, goes off to explore the undiscovered country.

Generations will remember her (I hope the media First Contact-ed her next of kin).

BroVinny: Oldiron_79: Well that must have been rough, hiding in the closet from Nazis and being dead and blind

Was this before or after her transatlantic flight?

Meant deaf obviously, Um before. also before they lead the women's sufferage movement.

Until now, I never considered that there may have been someone more tired of Mustang Sally than I am.

You know what color her eyes were?

They were blue.

One blew this way, and one blew that way!

/So sorry...

author1701: Sally Ride, first American woman to venture into the final frontier, goes off to explore the undiscovered country.


oh fark. You have given me a vision of dozens of lazy editorial cartoonists phoning it in with tacky tributes.

Mad Canadian: You know what color her eyes were?

They were blue.

One blew this way, and one blew that way!

/So sorry...

That's just so wrong. Laughed anyway.

dbaggins: SarcasticFark: It's a sad state of affairs that young women today have no one to look up to like my generation did with Sally Ride. True pioneers of the female persuasion are, sadly, too few and far between.


The USA has put up about 50 female astronauts (most of them for multiple flights). I don't think young girls are hurting for a role model to go into space.

What field are girls lacking pioneers/professionals in ?


Is there some frontier that is still no girls allowed ? honestly. what area is needing a female pioneer ?
As far as I can tell, Hockey.
I went to elementary school with a girl that nonchalantly had a broken arm every winter from playing hockey.
In junior high, she was on the high school's (older) boys (boys?!) hockey team.
Lost touch with her after graduation.
She should have been in the NHL.
What's she doing now? Phys Ed teacher.
There ain't no justice.

From stardust she was created and to stardust she will return.

I had to look, the freepers don't know what to do with this.

suthrnrunt: wjmorris3: The first woman in space has loosed the surly bonds of earth and touched the face of God. RIP

huh

Reagan paraphrase.

+1 for it.

Sally Ride was freaking awesome. Growing up in the 80s I always remembered her name, she was pioneer and hero to me. No snark needed.

So, if she wasn't the first woman in space, maybe she was the first gay person in space? First lesbian?

Hell, I didn't even know she was a lesbian until just now. That's so awesome! That ought to be publicized more.

Hey, gay girls... you know how people always pick on you for being different? Show them the f*ck up and be a goddamned astronaut!

B*tches love space!

I always somehow managed to get Sally Ride and Sally Field mixed up in my head.

R.I.P. Cali Pride

/appropriate for Sally Ride
//Born in Encino, out and proud
///Slashies come in threes

I thought she died in the Challenger accident in the 80s.

At least she'll have elementary schools named after her.

"Her first flight came two decades after the Soviets sent a woman into space"

What shocked me is the Soviets were the first to send a woman into space...

spman: RIP Space Lady

Pancreatic cancer is a biatch, ain't it? No symptoms until it's too late, generally no specific reason why you get it, and a prognosis of 6 - 12 months. That's some scary shiat.

We lost my wife's sister to pancreatic cancer last Christmas. She was 46.