Sally Ride: One big step for humankind
It's hard to be courageous after you have died, but pioneering U.S. astronaut Sally Ride managed this with her posthumous coming out as being partnered with a woman for 27 years.
The news that Ride died at 61 years old, of pancreatic cancer, was felt particularly hard by the early generation of feminists who viewed her 1983 launch into space as a "sisterhood-is-powerful" moment. Ride was a hero for men, women and children. But it was the little girls who were the most transformed.
The Sally Ride Science website matter of factly listed Ride's survivors as including Tam O'Shaughnessy. When I saw that, I immediately went online to confirm Tam was indeed a female.… Seguir leyendo »