Skooter reporting 07/24/12 Though she was not the first woman in space, that was Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova in June 1963, Sally Ride was the first US woman to travel into...
Sally Ride who was the first female astronaut to travel in space died today July 23 2012. She passed away from pancreatic cancer at the age of 61. She rode aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1983.
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