{"id":7855,"date":"2017-09-01T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=7855"},"modified":"2017-09-01T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T15:00:14","slug":"honoring-sally-tam-oshaughnessy-aboard-the-rv-sally-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/uctv\/honoring-sally-tam-oshaughnessy-aboard-the-rv-sally-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Sally: Tam O\u2019Shaughnessy Aboard the R\/V Sally Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/steam\/search-details.aspx?showID=31454\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/images\/widescreen\/31454.jpg\" alt=\"8232\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>Want a break from the onslaught of bad news? A chance to feel good about the world? Then spend 20 minutes with Tam O\u2019Shaughnessy, the life partner of the late astronaut Sally Ride, as she describes a remarkable friendship that began long before Sally\u2019s historic flights on the Space Shuttle Challenger and later blossomed into a romance that ended with Sally\u2019s death from cancer in 2012. As Executive Director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sallyridescience.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sally Ride Science@UC San Diego<\/a>, Tam continues their mission of encouraging girls to embrace STEM.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in the pilothouse of the newly commissioned <a href=\"https:\/\/scripps.ucsd.edu\/ships\/sally-ride\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">R\/V Sally Ride<\/a>, Tam shares her profound pride in being named the sponsor of the first naval academic research vessel ever named for a woman. Crew on the R\/V Sally Ride, operated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/scripps.ucsd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego<\/a>, will conduct research on the environmental issues she and Sally cared most about \u2013 understanding the universe and protecting planet Earth.    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uctv.tv\/steam\/search-details.aspx?showID=31454\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch Honoring Sally: Tam O\u2019Shaughnessy Aboard the R\/V Sally Ride<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want a break from the onslaught of bad news? A chance to feel good about the world? Then spend 20 minutes with Tam O\u2019Shaughnessy, the life partner of the late astronaut Sally Ride, as she describes a remarkable friendship that began long before Sally\u2019s historic flights on the Space Shuttle Challenger and later blossomed into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[75,88,2],"tags":[345,346,347,348],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}