Sally Ride’s Death – Cause and Date
Born (Birthday) May 26, 1951
Death Date July 23, 2012
Age of Death 61 years
Cause of Death Pancreatic Cancer
Place of Death La Jolla, California, United States
Place of Burial Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica, California, United States
Profession Astronaut
The astronaut Sally Ride died at the age of 61. Below is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
American astronaut and physicist who joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman to enter low-Earth orbit. She flew two missions aboard the Challenger shuttle: STS-7 and STS-41-G.
She married Steven Hawley in 1982 and divorced him in 1987. After her death, it was revealed that she had a 27-year relationship with Tam O’Shaughnessy, a female tennis player and professor.
How did Sally Ride die?
On March 10, 2011, Sally Ride delivered a speech at the National Science Teachers Association Conference in San Francisco. O’Shaughnessy, among others, noted that Ride looked ill on stage and had her book a doctor’s appointment the next day. An ultrasound revealed a golfball-sized tumor in her abdomen. At the University of California San Diego the doctors did a CT scan and found Ride had pancreatic cancer.
The astronaut did chemotherapy and radiation therapy to make the tumor smaller. On October 27, 2011, surgeons removed part of Ride’s pancreas, stomach, bile duct, and intestine, along with her gall bladder.
Sally Ride died from pancreatic cancer on July 23, 2012. According to Terry McEntee, a spokeswoman for her company (Sally Ride Science), she died at her home in the San Diego suburb of La Jolla.
Burial
Sally Ride is buried next to her father at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica.
Quotes
""I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!"
Sally Ride
""All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary."
""I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now."
""For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did."
""Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue."