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Story highlights. 1  Sally Ride earned four degrees from Stanford University; she was an author. 2  President Barack Obama hails Ride as a national hero. 3  The former astronaut dies after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer; she was 61. 4  NASA: Ride broke barriers ... and literally changed the face of America's space program.
These are the five books Sally Ride authored/co-authored: 1. The Mystery of Mars, Sally Ride & Tom O'Shaughnessy, 1999 2. The Third Planet: Exploring the Earth From Space,â¦ Sally Ride, 1994 3. Voyager: An Adventure to the Edge of the Solar System, Sally Ride, 1992 4. To Space and Back, Sally Ride, 1989 5.