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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
Astrophysicist
Physicist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Dr Sally Kristen Ride
Sally Ride- Hawley
Sally Kristen Ride
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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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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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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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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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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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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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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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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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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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I had both male and female heroes.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals.
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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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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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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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 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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