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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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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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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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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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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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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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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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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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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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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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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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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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 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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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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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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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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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 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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