deaths
July 23, 2012
Sally Ride, American physicist and astronaut (born 1951)
Sally Ride
Sally Kristen Ride was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982. She was the youngest American astronaut to have flown in space, having done so at the age of 32.
July 23
July 23 is the 204th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 161 days remain until the end of the year.