Sally Ride – I shared two things with her

Remember "Ride, Sally Ride!"

The first American woman in space.

We shared two things – we were both born in 1951, and we both played rugby!

Here are a couple of articles about her –

By becoming the first U.S. woman—and youngest astronaut—in space, Sally Ride, who died Monday from pancreatic cancer, was a pioneer and a trailblazer.

But it was what she did with the rest of her career that made her a leader.

And a longer faeture in the NY Times –

American Woman Who Shattered Space Ceiling

Dr. Ride, a physicist who was accepted into the space program in 1978 after she answered a newspaper ad for astronauts, flew on the shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983, and on a second mission in 1984. At 32, she was also the youngest American in space.