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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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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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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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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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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.
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The best advice I can give anybody is to try to understand who you are and what you want to do, and don't be afraid to go down that road and do whatever it takes and work as hard as you have to work to achieve that.
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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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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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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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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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I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.
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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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I think maybe it's too bad that our society isn't further along and this is such a big deal. I think it's time...that people realize that women in this country can do any job they want to do.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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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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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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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