{"id":3502,"date":"2012-07-23T18:08:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T22:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2012-07-23T18:08:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T22:08:29","slug":"sally-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3502","title":{"rendered":"Sally Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Ride-s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3504\" title=\"Ride-s\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Ride-s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a>Good-bye, Sally Ride. America&#8217;s first female astronaut died today, at age 61, after a battle with cancer. When she flew on board Challenger in 1983, Ride was also NASA&#8217;s youngest astronaut to have made it to space.<\/p>\n<p>Ride is also known as the only person who publicly supported Roger Boisjoly, the Morton-Thiokol engineer who tried to warn NASA that Challenger was in mortal danger, only to be overruled by his bosses. Boisjoly himself died earlier this year, at age 73.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s first female astronaut, or rather, cosmonaut, is still alive: Valentina Tereshkova is 75 this year, seemingly in good health (judging by her appearance in recent press photographs). May she enjoy many more happy years!<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3502' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good-bye, Sally Ride. America&#8217;s first female astronaut died today, at age 61, after a battle with cancer. When she flew on board Challenger in 1983, Ride was also NASA&#8217;s youngest astronaut to have made it to space. Ride is also known as the only person who publicly supported Roger Boisjoly, the Morton-Thiokol engineer who tried <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3502' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-space","category-25-id","category-26-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3508,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions\/3508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}