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Post by StarFuryG7 on Jul 23, 2012 18:09:24 GMT -5
Over at io9:R.I.P. Sally Ride, an astronaut who changed the future Sally Ride, America's first female astronaut, has passed away from pancreatic cancer at the age of 61. She was a physicist, a Space Shuttle pioneer, a teacher, and one of those people who changes the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary ways. More ยป io9.com/5928416/rip-sally-ride-an-astronaut-who-changed-the-future
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Post by TrekBeatTK on Jul 23, 2012 20:40:42 GMT -5
On the one hand, it's a little silly that the American-centric culture here has to be sure kids learn who the first AMERICAN woman in space was, and poor Valentina Tereshkova remains relatively unknown. Still, that doesn't take away from Ride's accomplishments for our space program and I'm sure she will be missed.
Ride, Sally Ride.
-TK
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Post by StarFuryG7 on Jul 24, 2012 16:21:10 GMT -5
On the one hand, it's a little silly that the American-centric culture here has to be sure kids learn who the first AMERICAN woman in space was, and poor Valentina Tereshkova remains relatively unknown. Still, that doesn't take away from Ride's accomplishments for our space program and I'm sure she will be missed. -TK |
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Post by TrekBeatTK on Jul 24, 2012 19:37:53 GMT -5
Well, that's fine. But just in general I remember learning about Sally Ride in school and everything, but never hearing Tereshkova's name. Then there was a Punky Brewster episode that featured this quote: "Without Sally Ride, no women in space." or something like that.
Surely at this moment Ride should rightly be the focus of attention. I just think that over the past 25 years there's been more made of her than maybe should have been.
-TK
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