Sally Ride, the first US woman to travel into space, has died aged 61 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, her foundation announced.
"Sally's historic flight into space captured the nation's imagination and made her a household name," Sally Ride Science said in a statement.
She blasted off in the US space shuttle Challenger in June 1983.
Ride was not the first woman in space - that was Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova in June 1963.
Ride died on Monday in La Jolla, California.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18963939#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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