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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
Sally Ride
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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
Astronaut
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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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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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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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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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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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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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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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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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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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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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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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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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We need to make science cool again.
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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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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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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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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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