Sally ride, RIP

Five Things You Didn't Know About Sally Ride.

Journalist Michael Ryan recounted some of the sillier questions that had been posed to Ride in a June 1983 profile for People. Among the highlights:

Q: “Do you weep when things go wrong on the job?”
A: “How come nobody ever asks (a male fellow astronaut) those questions?”
Forget going into space; Ride’s most impressive achievement might have been maintaining her composure in the face of such offensive questions.