KimNorth: "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...

Nor me. Most Soviet women were built like a brick sh*thouse.

Somebody else can center it and add the RIP meme.

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

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

If memory serves me right, I think she was involved in the investigation of the Challenger accident afterwards.

exick: After retiring from NASA, Sally used her high profile to champion a cause she believed in passionately--inspiring young people, especially girls, to stick with their interest in science, to become scientifically literate, and to consider pursuing careers in science and engineering.

Cheers to you, Ms. Ride. There aren't nearly enough like you in the world.

Ride is survived by her partner of 27 years, Tam O'Shaughnessy

And to add a little Fark style levity to this, holy crap is that not the most Irish name in history? haha

and tells me something about Miss ride I never knew before, apparently NASA never had the equivalent DADT restrictions, and Dr. Tam O'Shaughessy seems like a pretty cool lady in her own right

Safe passage, Sally. You were an inspiration to many.

Damn.

So long. :/

Thank you subby for appropriate use of "Sad" tag. Awesome space lady was awesome.

RIP, Sally. Thanks for inspiring all of us. You were pretty damned cool.

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

Go, Sally, Go

Or as has become, sadly the traditional astronaut's sending-off poem
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 wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever 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.


But I'm still partial to :

Out ride the sons of Terra,
Far drives the thundering jet,
Up leaps a race of Earthmen,
Out, far, and onward yet ---

At my one Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes I went to in Missouri, she came and spoke to us. "I see the flower of youth here, all these kids with great possibilities. What are you doing? Trying to get high. All I hear is - got any pot. Oh, you are also trying to get laid. Please work on fixing the worlds problems"

RIP Sally may ride amongst the stars forever more.

I wanted to be her when I grew up. She was my hero.

And to steal Spanky's line - may you play forever among the stars.

burber

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

So did I. Generally they are about the sames as Farkers right down to posting High Flight. No Helen Keller or Ann frank mems though.

1/10

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

Not to be pedantic in an in memoriam thread but credit needs to be given where it is due. This is first woman in space:
Valentina Tereshkova


Sally was the first US woman

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.

Thank you for this posting because it's immediately what I thought of.

FTFA: Ride died at her home in the San Diego suburb of La Jolla, said Terry McEntee, a spokeswoman for her company, Sally Ride Science.

Am I the only one who finds the amazing coincidence that Sally Ride's death announcement just happens to have come from the so-called "Sally Ride Science" just a little too convenient?


FTFA: She was a private person and the details of her illness were kept to just a few people, she said.

Is that still code for the AIDS?

Sally Ride knew Tam O'Shaughnessy since they were 12. Ride married astronaut Steve Hawley the year before her historic first space flight. They were divorced when she left NASA following her participation in the Challenger investigation. He remained with NASA till 2008 and said in 1999 that the reason for their divorce was that she wanted to leave NASA and he didn't.

Sally's sister Karen "Bear" Ride has been openly gay for decades. In 1999, Bear said, "Sally knows Susan and I have lived together for quite a while and that we share a house. But she prefers not to talk about it."

Excellent L.A Times profile

You know, thanks to our brilliant government, there's no survivor benefits here. This needs to change.

HopScotchNSoda: FTFA: Ride died at her home in the San Diego suburb of La Jolla, said Terry McEntee, a spokeswoman for her company, Sally Ride Science.

Am I the only one who finds the amazing coincidence that Sally Ride's death announcement just happens to have come from the so-called "Sally Ride Science" just a little too convenient?


FTFA: She was a private person and the details of her illness were kept to just a few people, she said.

Is that still code for the AIDS?

Aren't you the trolly one.

spman: cold_war_relic: 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.

That's awful. A cancer diagnosis is always terrible, but at least when you smoke your whole life and get lung cancer, or drink yourself into a stupor for 30 years and get liver cancer, you can at least point to a definitive cause. I couldn't imagine trying to wrap my head around a diagnosis like Pancreatic Cancer where the only real cause in most cases is just bad luck in the genetic lottery.

This....



....has the potential to cure and prevent cancer.

If you believe these guys: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cam/cannabis/healthprofessional /page4

Too bad it's been criminalized for the past 70 some years due to ignorance and fear...

Foundling: 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.

Sperm donor?

Another Government Employee: 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.

-1 for being inaccurate

KimNorth: "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...

Why?

Tell me did you sail across the sun
Did you make it to the milky way to see the lights all faded
And that heaven is overrated -Train

Jeebus, I loves Fark! The tributes here are wonderful, the snark is Farking perfect too...a great friend of mind was taken out by pancreatic cancer in under 9 months.....it is incredibly painful, vicious and still no mode of early diagnosis....let us all raise a glass in Sally's memory...she did challenge the Challenger investigation committee and was none too pleased at the whole issue of the gaskets...

Hagenhatesyouall: spman: cold_war_relic: 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.

That's awful. A cancer diagnosis is always terrible, but at least when you smoke your whole life and get lung cancer, or drink yourself into a stupor for 30 years and get liver cancer, you can at least point to a definitive cause. I couldn't imagine trying to wrap my head around a diagnosis like Pancreatic Cancer where the only real cause in most cases is just bad luck in the genetic lottery.

This....

[howtogrowmarijuana.com image 324x243]

....has the potential to cure and prevent cancer.

If you believe these guys: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cam/cannabis/healthprofessional /page4

Too bad it's been criminalized for the past 70 some years due to ignorance and fear...

ignorance, fear, and for the sake of profit. If the pharm/insurance/medical industries weren't so afraid of losing patients it would be legal. They know that if it is legal they won't be able to make money from a plant anyone can grow in their backyard. They'd rather keep it illegal and keep selling you thing that don't prevent or cure disease but help maintain your condition. It's called residual income.

I had no idea she was the first lesbian in space. That's an interesting footnote to an interesting woman.

That's truly sad news.

Rest in peace, Sally Ride.


And because it hasn't been said enough in this thread, f*ck cancer.

Anyone remember Jerri Cobb?

/didn't think so.

God Speed, Sally RIde!

From the Pittsburgh Affiliate Coordinator of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

I don't know whether it means anything or not, but, "God's speed Sally. God's speed."

Hector Felix: KimNorth: "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...

Why?

Let's not forget the first living female subject in space was also a Soviet: Laika the dog who succombed to O2 deprivation on the return flight November 3, 1957.

Quantum Apostrophe: , lumberjack,

There are female lumberjacks.

clowncar on fire: Let's not forget the first living female subject in space was also a Soviet: Laika the dog who succombed to O2 deprivation on the return flight November 3, 1957.

and the first american female, Miss Baker. She made is back and died of old age and has a nice memorial.

Hagenhatesyouall: This....

howtogrowmarijuana.com

....has the potential to cure and prevent cancer.


HAHAHAHA no.

RIP, first lesbian space lady.

consider this: Hagenhatesyouall: This....

howtogrowmarijuana.com

....has the potential to cure and prevent cancer.


HAHAHAHA no.

Indeed. If Mary Jane had the ability to fight the big "C", Carl Sagan would have been the most cancer-free man on the planet, next to Cheech and Chong.

BroVinny: consider this: Hagenhatesyouall: This....

howtogrowmarijuana.com

....has the potential to cure and prevent cancer.


HAHAHAHA no.

Indeed. If Mary Jane had the ability to fight the big "C", Carl Sagan would have been the most cancer-free man on the planet, next to Cheech and Chong.

They don't hand people bottles full of pure penicillium either. It has refinements and processes to turn it into a medication. There are plenty of treatments from natural sources which are only useful once they've been through a certain process.

Foundling: 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.

Manon Rheaume would like a word:




/Plenty of females in my adult league
//Makes the lockerroom interesting
///2 min for slashies

R.I.P. Sally

Do i have to do everything around here?

cretinbob: HopScotchNSoda: Is that still code for the AIDS?

She had pancreatic cancer and lived with it for 17 months, which is a hell of a long time to live with pancreatic cancer.

Yes, she was a lesbian, but what does that matter?

Does she need a cake?