NEWS
July 23, 2012 | By Nika Soon-Shiong, Los Angeles Times
Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel to space, lost her battle with pancreatic cancer Monday at the age of 61. She flew two missions on the space shuttle and after leaving NASA she worked at Stanford University and then UC San Diego, where she was a physics professor and director of the California Space Institute. In 2001, she founded Sally Ride Science to encourage kids to pursue careers in science, engineering and math. George Fuller is a physics professor at UC San Diego who serves as director of the Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences at the university.
NEWS
July 23, 2012 | By Claire Noland, Los Angeles Times
Sally Ride, who became the first American woman to fly in space when she rode in the space shuttle Challenger in 1983, has died. She was 61. Ride died Monday at her home in La Jolla after battling pancreatic cancer, said her mother, Joyce Ride of Claremont. Besides serving as an astronaut, Ride was a NASA advisor who helped study the Challenger and Columbia disasters. She also taught at UC San Diego and began a website, sallyridescience.com . A Los Angeles native, Ride was a Stanford University graduate.
SCIENCE
July 23, 2012 | By Monte Morin and Scott Gold, Los Angeles Times
As friends and former colleagues remembered astronaut Sally Ride, who died Monday of pancreatic cancer, a common theme was the grace with which she handled the responsibility of being the first American woman to fly in space. “She was a terribly nice person and, not surprisingly, enormously poised,” said Lynn Eden , a senior research scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, where Ride held a science fellowship from 1987 to 1989 when it was called the Center for International Security and Arms Control.
SCIENCE
July 23, 2012 | By Jon Bardin, Los Angeles Times
What are the odds that two girls in the same first-grade class in 1958 would both grow up to fly in space? Unlikely as it seems, Sally Ride and Kathryn Sullivan were grade school classmates who served together on the 13th space shuttle flight in 1984. They joined NASA together in 1978, when both were 26. Sullivan is now an assistant secretary of commerce for environmental observation and prediction, and deputy administrator, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
NATIONAL
July 23, 2012 | By Rene Lynch
Sally Ride's death today at age 61 from pancreatic cancer is being mourned around the world. If you believe the headlines, it's because Ride was the first American woman to fly in space. But that's not Ride's biggest accomplishment. Her biggest accomplishment was teaching girls and women that the sky, literally, is the limit. It may be hard for today's youth to imagine, but there was a time when many couldn't fathom women as pilots, much less astronauts. When Ride became the first American woman to fly in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1983, it shattered glass ceilings for millions of girls and women, helping redefine the role of the fairer sex. On Monday, women of a certain age did their best to try to put Ride's cultural significance into context -- and to do so in 140 characters.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 1, 2006 | Robert Salladay, Times Staff Writer
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver on Monday unveiled the first honorees for a new California Hall of Fame they hope will become a permanent fixture at the state museum in Sacramento. The honorees include 11 Californians and two prominent California families, the Hearsts and the Packards, who were deemed "trailblazers and legends." Shriver said the award is designed to highlight "people who really started from nothing and who changed the world."