Astronaut Sally Ride

           Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012)

DEVELOPING:(FOX) – Sally Ride, America’s first female astronaut, has
died after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. She joined NASA
in 1978, and in 1983 became the first woman, and then-youngest at 32,
to enter space. In 1987 she left NASA to work at Stanford University’s
Center for International Security and Arms Control.

The Communications Satellite Telstar was launched by NASA atop a 
Delta rocket on July 10, 1962 from Cape Canaveral. It successfully
relayed the first publicly available live transatlantic television signal
from space on July 23, at 3:00 p.m. EDT. That first public broadcast
featured CBS’s Walter Cronkite, NBC’s Chet Huntley in New York,
and the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby in Brussels. The first pictures were
the Statue of Liberty in New York and the Eiffel Tower in Paris.  

Astronaut Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom just before he climbed into his spacecraft

Grissom was the second American to go into space, following Alan Shepard’s 
suborbital flight. His flight on the "Liberty Bell 7" spacecraft, which lasted 15 
minutes and 37 seconds, was successful with the exception of the hatch
which blew prematurely after landing, causing the spacecraft to sink in the
Atlantic Ocean. Liberty Bell 7 was recovered from 3 miles deep in 1999, 38
years to the day after his lift-off.

A Marine helicopter lifts astronaut Grissom to safety after 
the splashdown of  Liberty Bell 7

View of Earth rising over Moon’s horizon taken from Apollo 11 spacecraft