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Ride received numerous honors and awards. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame and the Astronaut Hall of Fame, and has received the [[Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson]] Award for Public Service, the [[Wernher von Braun|von Braun]] Award, the [[Charles Lindbergh|Lindbergh]] Eagle, and the [[NCAA]]’s [[Theodore Roosevelt]] Award. She has also twice been awarded the NASA Space Flight Medal.<ref>[http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ride-sk.html Ride's biography as released by NASA (2006)]</ref>

Ride received numerous honors and awards. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame and the Astronaut Hall of Fame, and has received the [[Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson]] Award for Public Service, the [[Wernher von Braun|von Braun]] Award, the [[Charles Lindbergh|Lindbergh]] Eagle, and the [[NCAA]]’s [[Theodore Roosevelt]] Award. She has also twice been awarded the NASA Space Flight Medal.<ref>[http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ride-sk.html Ride's biography as released by NASA (2006)]</ref>

==Personal==

==Personal==

Ride was married to astronaut Steve Hawley. They divorced in 1987.<ref name=wp>{{cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/sally-ride-didnt-want-to-be-a-gay-icon/2012/07/24/gJQAFxdo6W_blog.html|title=Sally Ride didn't want to be a gay icon|author=Suzi Parker|date=July 24, 2012|work=Washington Post|accessdate=July 25, 2012}}</ref> Later she had a 27-year relationship with Tam O’Shaughnessy, a professor emerita of school psychology at San Diego State University. O'Shaughnessy and Ride wrote several books together, and O’Shaughnessy was also chief operating officer and executive vice president of Ride's company.<ref name=wp/>

Ride was married to astronaut Steve Hawley. They divorced in 1987.<ref name=wp>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/sally-ride-didnt-want-to-be-a-gay-icon/2012/07/24/gJQAFxdo6W_blog.html|title=Sally Ride didn't want to be a gay icon|author=Suzi Parker|date=July 24, 2012|work=Washington Post|accessdate=July 25, 2012}}</ref> Later she had a 27-year relationship with Tam O’Shaughnessy, a professor emerita of school psychology at San Diego State University. O'Shaughnessy and Ride wrote several books together, and O’Shaughnessy was also chief operating officer and executive vice president of Ride's company.<ref name=wp/>

Ride died at age 61 after losing the battle with pancreatic cancer. She had authored an obituary which announced that she was a lesbian.<ref name=wp/>

Ride died at age 61 after losing the battle with pancreatic cancer. She had authored an obituary which announced that she was a lesbian.<ref name=wp/>