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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
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Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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I had both male and female heroes.
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I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.
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It was a real honor for me to get to be the first woman astronaut. I think it's really important that young girls that are growing up today can see that women can be astronauts too. There have actually been a lot of women, who are astronauts, that that's a career that's open to them.
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The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.
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Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.
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For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
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That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.
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There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences.
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Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.
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If they asked me if I wanted to go into space tomorrow, I'd do it in a heartbeat. On the other hand, if they asked me if I wanted to go into training for three years and then go into space again, I'd probably say no.
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The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.
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