At Upstream Marketing, some of our clients are contractors for NASA.  Today with sadden hearts that we report

Sally Ride, 61, the first U.S. woman to travel into space, died on Monday after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.

Sally Ride Wikipedia

Sally Ride Science – Sally Ride’s Foundation

I remember a quote from Sally that  says it all.

“But when I wasn’t working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth”  Sally Ride

I know she is looking down on all of us now.   Our prayers go out to her family, friends and all of her NASA coworkers.

She will be greatly missed.