{"id":2591,"date":"2012-07-23T23:40:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T23:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2012-07-23T23:40:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T23:40:47","slug":"in-memoriam-sally-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/23\/in-memoriam-sally-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Sally Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/sally_ride_on_flight_deck-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2524\" alt=\"sally_ride_on_flight_deck\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/sally_ride_on_flight_deck-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDr. Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, has died of pancreatic cancer at the too-young age of 61. If you can&#8217;t quite recall these things, she flew aboard space shuttle <i>Challenger <\/i>on only its second mission in 1983, and again on <i>Challenger <\/i>in 1984. She was scheduled for a third flight, but that was scuttled following the <i>Challenger <\/i>disaster in &#8217;86. She served on the presidential commission that investigated that accident, then retired from NASA in &#8217;87. She was subsequently recalled from academia to serve on the board that investigated the loss of space shuttle <i>Columbia<\/i><i> <\/i>in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s often called a role model for girls (for understandable reasons), but I have to say this boy always considered her a hero as well, right up there with all the male astronauts, as she deserved. It&#8217;s a shame kids today are more likely to look up to the Kardashians than a woman &#8212; than a <i>person <\/i>&#8212; like this. A brave and determined person who championed education and science and did her best to push back the frontier &#8212; all sorts of frontiers &#8212; just a little more for the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p>Goddamn cancer. It&#8217;s getting personal now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, has died of pancreatic cancer at the too-young age of 61. If you can&#8217;t quite recall these things, she flew aboard space shuttle Challenger on only its second mission in 1983, and again on Challenger in 1984. She was scheduled for a third flight, but that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}