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4:3 Sally Ride, first US woman in space, dies at 61

(24 Jul 2012) STORYLINE Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, died on Monday aged 61-years old. NASA confirmed her death Monday afternoon and President Barack Obama called her a national hero. Her office in San Diego said she died of pancreatic cancer. Ride went into space on the shuttle Challenger in 1983 when she was 32 years-old. Ride was a physicist, writer of five science books for children and president of her own company. She had also been a professor of physics at the University of California in San Diego. She was selected as an astronaut candidate in 1978, the same year she earned her doctorate in physics from Stanford University. She beat out five women to be the first American female in space. Her first flight came two decades after the Soviets sent a woman into space. Ride flew in space twice, both times on Challenger in 1983 and in 1984, logging 343 hours in space. A third flight was cancelled when Challenger exploded in 1986. She was on the commission investigating that accident and later served on the panel for the 2003 Columbia shuttle accident, the only person on both boards. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...