Sally Ride, who blazed trails into orbit as the first American woman in space, has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 61.
Ride died at her home in the San Diego suburb of La Jolla, said Terry McEntee, a spokeswoman for her company, Sally Ride Science. She was a private person and the details of her illness were kept to just a few people, she said.
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