Editing Sally Ride (section)

===Planned third mission===
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Ride was soon back in the rotation, training for her third flight, STS-61-I. This mission was scheduled to be flown no later than July 15, 1986, and was to deploy the [[Intelsat VI]]-1 and [[INSAT]] 1-C communications satellites and carry the Materials Science Lab-4.<ref>{{cite press release |first=Steve |last=Nesbitt |id=86-027 |date=June 17, 1985 |title=NASA Names Astronaut Crew For Space Shuttle Mission 61-I |publisher=[[NASA]] |url=https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/pdf/83137main_1985.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061011022315/http://www1.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/pdf/83137main_1985.pdf |archive-date=2006-10-11 |url-status=live |access-date=July 23, 2022 }}</ref> The crew was subsequently switched to [[Cancelled Space Shuttle missions#STS-61-M (Challenger)|STS-61-M]], a [[Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System]] (TRDS) deployment mission scheduled to be flown in July 1986.<ref name="si-bio">{{cite web |last1=Williams |first1=Patti |title=Sally K. Ride Papers |url=https://sova.si.edu/record/NASM.2014.0025 |website=[[Smithsonian Institution Archives|Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives]] |publisher=[[Smithsonian Institution]] |access-date=May 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505130915/https://sova.si.edu/record/NASM.2014.0025 |archive-date=May 5, 2021 |location=Washington, D.C. |year=2016 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="RogersVol2">{{cite report |title=Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' Accident |author1=Rogers, William P. |author2=Armstrong, Neil A. |author3=Acheson, David C. |author4=Covert, Eugene E. |author5=Feynman, Richard P. |author6=Hotz, Robert B. |author7=Kutyna, Donald J. |author8=Ride, Sally K. |author9=Rummel, Robert W. |author10=Sutter, Joseph F. |author11=Walker, Arthur B. C. Jr. |author12=Wheelon, Albert D. |author13=Yeager, Charles E. |author1-link=William P. Rogers |author2-link=Neil Armstrong |author3-link=David Campion Acheson |author4-link=Eugene E. Covert |author5-link=Richard Feynman |author7-link=Donald J. Kutyna |author8-link=Sally Ride |author10-link=Joe Sutter |author11-link=Arthur B. C. Walker Jr. |author13-link=Chuck Yeager |volume=2 |page=J-36 |year=1986 |url=https://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v2appj.htm |access-date=July 23, 2022 }}</ref> She also served on two more missions as CapCom. On January 7, 1986, Ride provided a glowing reference for her friend (and eventual biographer) [[Lynn Sherr]] for NASA's [[Journalist in Space Project]]. Sherr became one of the finalists.<ref name="Sherr2014" />{{rp|pp=200–201}} During 1985, Ride began an affair with [[Tam O'Shaughnessy]]. The two knew each other from the junior tennis circuit, and from when Ride was at Stanford.  O'Shaughnessy was now living in Atlanta, and had recently broken up with her female partner. Ride visited when she went to Atlanta on speaking engagements.<ref name="Sherr2014" />{{rp|pp=192–195}} Hawley was  aware that his marriage was in trouble, but not that O'Shaughnessy was more than a friend. Ride still performed her astronaut spouse duties for Hawley when he flew in space for the second time on [[STS-61-C]] in January 1986.<ref name="Sherr2014" />{{rp|p=199}} Astronauts and their spouses were quarantined for a few days before launch, and they stayed at the [[astronaut beach house]] at the KSC. Spouses were expected to attend events before and after launches, including the post-mission publicity tour.<ref>{{cite book |last=Seddon |first=Rhea |title=Go For Orbit: One of America's First Women Astronauts Finds Her Space |location=Murfreesboro, Tennessee |publisher=Your Space Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-9962178-1-1 |oclc=921147949 }}</ref>{{rp|pp=157–166}} This could be agonizing for a couple whose marriage was breaking up.<ref name="Sherr2014" />{{rp|p=199}}