(Courtesy U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams/Released)
Dr. Tam O’Shaughnessy, widow of U.S. astronaut Sally Ride, broke a bottle across the bow of the Navy’s new auxiliary general oceanographic research (AGOR) vessel, christening it R/V Sally Ride (AGOR 28).
During her life, Ride, the first female astronaut, never spoke publicly about being a lesbian. That information came out after her death in 2012. She and O’Shaughnessy had been together 27 years and were married for five years.
Lynn Sherr recently spoke to Dallas Voice about her new book about Ride.