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July 23, 2012
Sally Ride, Trailblazing Astronaut, Dies at 61
“In fact, I’m sure it was the most fun I’ll ever have in my life.” Dr. Ride told interviewers that what drove her was not the desire to become famous or to make history as the first woman in space. All she wanted to do was fly, she said, to soar into space, float around weightless inside the shuttle, look out at the heavens and gaze back at Earth. In photographs of her afloat in the spaceship, she was grinning, as if she had at long last reached the place she was meant to be. -- - NYTimes.com
Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 23, 2012 9:49 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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That's why I stayed poor as a career military pilot - it was out and out fun. I'm a little better off today, but would trade it all to go back and do that again.
Posted by: BillH at July 24, 2012 4:28 PM