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June 18, 1983: Sally Ride Becomes First American Woman in Space

On this day in 1983, at the age of 32, astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger. After the voyage, Sally Ride received many honors for her contributions to the field of science and space exploration. In May 2012, Sally Ride became the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States.

On July 23, 2012, Sally Ride died at the age of 61 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.

 

Visit PBS NewsHour to learn more about Sally Ride

Photo: Courtesy of NASA

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Soldiers’ Engraved Zippos from Vietnam

I am the meanest mother fucker in the valley.

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I CEPHALOPODI
Cephalopods of Naples

From an 1896 monograph by Giuseppe Jatta.  The illustrator is Comingio Merculiano (1845- 1915), a professional watercolor painter hired in 1885 by prof. Anton Dohrn as in-house illustrator for the Naples Zoological Station, and one of the best scientific illustrators to date. This book on cephalopods is his masterpiece.

via BibliOdyssey: Neapolitan Cephalopods

Images hosted by the Biodiversity Heritage Library on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution

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i will always reblog this

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