To commemorate what would have been her 64th birthday, Google has created five special doodles on its homepage in honor of Sally Ride, the first American woman in space.

Ride passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2012, nearly three decades after she made history as the first woman in space aboard the Challenger space shuttle in 1983.

"I hope I've been able to capture some of the wonders that Sally must have felt up there floating free above it all," the artist of the doodles, Olivia Huynh, explained in a short video.

Ride was awarded a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 by President Obama, who said, “As the first American woman in space, Sally did not just break the stratospheric glass ceiling, she blasted through it.”

[caption id="attachment_202780" align="alignnone" width="600"] Tam O'Shaughnessy accepts the Presidential Medal of Freedom on behalf of her late partner, Sally Ride.[/caption]

The medal was accepted by Tam O'Shaughnessy, Sally's life partner for over 27 years. Sally gave Tam permission to acknowledge their love publicly prior to Ride's death.

“Being in love is the best feeling, and I was in love with her until the day she died," Tam told the HRC in November, 2013.

Go behind the Doodle below.