(FILES) Photo dated January 1983 shows NASA astronaut Sally Ride at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Ride, the first US woman to fly in space, died on July 23, 2012 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, her foundation announced. She was 61. Ride first launched into space in 1983, on the seventh US space shuttle mission.       AFP PHOTO/NASA/HO         ++RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE- NOT FOR ADVERSTISING OR MARKETING CAMPAIGNS - MANDATORY CREDIT: AFP PHOTO/NASA - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS++-/AFP/GettyImages Photo: - / AFP ImageForum