17 months is a long time to live with pancreatic cancer; most die within 6 months. She must have shown incredible courage and fortitude in this last battle,as she did in the space program. She was truly a woman to be admired.
(Most women under 30 don't know who Susan B. Anthony or Clara Barton was, either.) Lin
Back in 1983, when Sally Ride became the first American woman in space as a crew member on the space shuttle Challenger, the California-born astronaut shattered the glass ceiling of gender discrimination in a spectacular way.
Nearly three decades later, space travel has reached a level of equality that a woman astronaut such as Peggy Whitson actually can command a space station mission without making headlines. But the passage of time has made it easy to forget the height of the barriers overcome by Ride, who died at age 61 on Monday in San Diego after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
I love this piece that was sent to us by a good friend. "Ride, Sally Ride."
One of the tragedies in my mind is that I mentioned she had passed in the office and one of the young women (24) asked who she was. Of all the things that we teach in schools, why can we not impress upon our youth that the world was changed by women of this generation. This woman lived her life in such a way that every single one of us benefited by ceilings she shattered.
RIP Sally - I hope that the view is even more fantastic than the one you saw while you were here.
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