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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
Astronaut
Astrophysicist
Physicist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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Sally Kristen Ride
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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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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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
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I suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think that's very important.
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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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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 slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.
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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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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.
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We need to make science cool again.
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It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!
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The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
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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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I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.
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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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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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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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