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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.
The Young Rascals covered the song in 1966, changing the year of the brand new Mustang from 1965 to 1966. The chorus of the song includes the lyrics ride, Sally, ride â a phrase that became fodder for newspaper headlines in 1983, when astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.