Sally Ride, trailblazing Shuttle astronaut, dies at 61

Always loved her Ellen Ripley 80's hairstyle.

Also reminds me of the old times when the USA still had some hope of growing up in style. We didn't know the truth about what horrible things were going down even back then but who would have foreseen the full-scale devolution into the ridiculous corporatist-socialist-imperialist-warfare state that we have now, with a droning harpie and black narcissus as figureheads?

I will be at the pub.

She sure had "the right stuff"

So relatively young...Sad.

Well, obviously..

.. if she was involved in designing the robot arm she would have to be in arms control later.

61 is early, though.

She had no role in the design of the robot arm. That was built in canada and it was Julie Payette that had most invovlement.

Sally rides death is another terrible blow to the shuttle programme which itself is now dead.

Men die too, you know

Sure, it's sad when anyone passes before their time, but this is only getting such wide media coverage because she was a woman.

First American woman in space? How ridiculously sexist!

A sad loss

She inspired others - what are we without dreams?

RIP Sally.