One late afternoon, it's like I thought about her differently and I could tell that she did, too. She would come to Atlanta for a few days in between training and giving talks and being a famous astronaut. And then we just started spending time together.
I had realized that I was gay a few years earlier, and I never thought of Sally kind of romantically. On she and Ride, in their early 30s, realizing they wanted to be together And our parents were like, what are they doing? But I actually think that from that young age, we liked each other. And we would sit on the bench, drink water, twirl our rackets and talk for a long time instead of, you know, let's keep playing the match. And so any time in tennis, every odd game, you change sides of the court. Sally and I just sort of - we wanted to be talking and getting to know each other. On meeting Ride while playing tennis in junior tournaments in California when they were young And it's true that she became a role model for other girls and young women around the world who thought, wow, if Sally Ride can fly in space, you know, maybe I can, too. And then, of course, she was an astronaut. If I had to list the labels that she liked, she was an athlete, she was a physicist, and in fact, being a physicist was her favorite. On Sally Ride being a role model for girls and young women "And she kind of thought about it for a second," O'Shaughnessy remembers. O'Shaughnessy says she asked Ride, "Who am I going to be in the world?" In an interview with Short Wave host Madeline Sofia, O'Shaughnessy remembers how Ride opened the door to that revelation shortly before she died.
Years later, they fell in love.īut their relationship remained largely private until after Ride's death in 2012 at age 61. They met as kids in the early 1960s and developed an instant connection. There was much more to O'Shaughnessy and Ride's relationship, however. It led them to co-found Sally Ride Science, a company focused on equity and inclusion in science education. Tam O'Shaughnessy and Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space - in 1983, aboard the space shuttle Challenger - shared a passion for getting girls involved in STEM. With the launch, Mission Specialist Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space. In 1983, space shuttle Challenger and the STS-7 crew launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
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