R/V Sally Ride

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The Navy’s first academic research vessel to be named after a woman will be christened for America’s first female astronaut in space. The R/V Sally Ride was announced Friday as the Navy’s next ocean-class auxiliary general oceanographic research ship, a Neil Armstrong-class AGOR vessel. Ride, who passed away in 2012, worked at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California in San Diego, which will operate the R/V Sally Ride (AGOR 28) after its launch in 2015.

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