Honoring Sally: Tam O'Shaughnessy Aboard the R/V Sally Ride

In this candid and heartwarming interview, Tam O'Shaughnessy, the
life partner of the late astronaut Sally Ride, describes her long
relationship with the first American woman in space. From their
days on the teen tennis circuit in California through Sally’s
historic flights on the Space Shuttle Challenger to their parallel
academic careers and later, founding their own company, Tam tells
how their deep friendship blossomed over time into a romance that
ended with Sally’s death from cancer in 2012. As the Executive
Director of Sally Ride Science@UC San Diego, Tam continues to
inspire girls to embrace STEM, and shares her profound pride as the
sponsor of the newly commissioned R/V Sally Ride, the first Naval
academic research vessel ever named for a woman, now operated by
the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Series:
"Women in Science" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Science]
[Education] [Show ID: 31454]