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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

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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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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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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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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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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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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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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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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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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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I had both male and female heroes.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.
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The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.
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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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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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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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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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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 slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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