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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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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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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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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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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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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 even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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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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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.
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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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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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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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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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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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That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.
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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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I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.
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