Images: Sally Ride 1951-2012
In this June 1983 file photo provided by NASA, astronaut Sally K. Ride, STS-7 mission specialist, communicates with ground controllers from the mid-deck of the earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger.
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In this June 1983 photo released by NASA, astronaut Sally Ride, a specialist on shuttle mission STS-7, monitors control panels from the pilotÂ’s chair on the shuttle Columbia flight deck.
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In this Aug. 29, 1983 file photo, astronaut Sally Ride poses at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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This undated photo released by NASA shows astronaut Sally Ride.
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In this July 28, 2009 file photo, former astronaut Dr. Sally Ride, with Jeffrey Greason in the background, comments during a public meeting of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee, in League City, Texas.
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In this Oct. 7, 2009 file photo, former Astronaut Sally Ride speaks to members of the media as NASA personnel set up astronomy equipment on the South Lawn of the White House in preparation for an event with the President and the First Lady, in Washington.
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This undated file photo released by NASA shows astronaut Sally Ride.
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Sally's astronaut training included learning how to fly an airplane and even flying in T-38 jets.
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Sally at a Sally Ride Science Festival.
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Sally Ride and three of her STS-7 crewmates take a break from simulator training to pose for a NASA photographer at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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Three days before launch, Ride takes a last look at Houston before taking off in a T-38 jet, bound for NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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One of Ride's jobs was to call out "Roll program" seven seconds after launch. "I'll guarantee that those were the hardest words I ever had to get out of my mouth," she said later.
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Ride uses a screw driver to clean out an air filtering system in the middeck of the Challenger. Her shirt features a cartoon of 35 busy astronauts around a shuttle with the acronym TFNG, which stands for "thirty five new guys," a nickname for the 1978 astronaut class.
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In June 2003 at the KSC Visitor Complex, former astronaut Robert L. Crippen (right) presents former astronaut Sally K. Ride (standing center) at her induction ceremony into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. Also standing is former astronaut James A. Lovell. Seated on the dais are, from left, former astronauts John H. Glenn, Gordon Cooper, Buzz Aldrin, and Walter Cunningham, all previously inducted into the Hall of Fame. Being inducted with Ride are space shuttle astronauts Daniel Brandenstein, Robert Gibson and Story Musgrave.
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Former astronaut Dr. Sally Ride, left, confers with Norman Augustine, chair, prior to the start of the final meeting of the Human Space Flight Review Committee, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009, in Washington.
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This undated photo released by NASA shows astronaut Sally Ride. Ride, the first American woman in space, died Monday, July 23, 2012 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.
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