美國首位女航天員萊德週一去世大綱

Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, died Monday. She was 61 years old and had been suffering from pancreatic cancer.
美國首位女航天員萊德(Sally Ride)週一因胰腺癌去世，終年61歲。

Her death was announced by Sally Ride Science, a science-education company she founded to motivate children to pursue careers in science and technology.
萊德創立的科學教育公司Sally Ride Science宣佈了她的死訊。該公司的宗旨是激勵青少年投身科學技術事業。

Ms. Ride first blasted into space on June 18, 1983, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, at age 32. The mission came two decades after the Soviet Union sent a woman into space.
NASA/Associated Press983年6月，航天飛機飛行倉內的萊德正在密切注視控制面板。1983年6月18日，32歲的萊德乘坐“挑戰者號”航天飛機第一次進入太空。這次航天之旅比前蘇聯將首位女性送入太空晚了20年。

A year later, Ms. Ride flew on the Challenger a second time. After Ms. Ride, 42 more American women have flown in space, a NASA spokesman said.
一年後，萊德第二次搭乘“挑戰者號”。美國國家航空航天管理局(NASA)的發言人說，萊德之後，又有42名美國女性進入太空。

'Sally was a national hero and a powerful role model,' President Barack Obama said in a statement.
美國總統奧巴馬(Barack Obama)在聲明中說，她是美國的英雄，是偉大的榜樣。

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said that Ms. Ride 'broke barriers with grace and professionalism─and literally changed the face of America's space program.'
NASA局長博爾登(Charles Bolden)說，萊德的翩翩風度與專業素養破除了重重障礙，可以說她的出現改變了美國航天計劃的面貌。

A native of Los Angeles, Ms. Ride earned a Ph.D. in physics before joining NASA in 1978. She was among the first six women to be trained by NASA as astronauts, and along with the 29 men trained that year, the class was known as the 'Thirty-Five New Guys.'
萊德是美國洛杉磯人，1978年加入NASA之前獲得了物理學博士學位。她是美國第一批接受NASA航天員培訓的六名女性之一。同年接受培訓的還有29名男性，這個班上的學員被稱爲“35位新人”(Thirty-Five New Guys)。