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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
Astronaut
Astrophysicist
Physicist
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LA
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Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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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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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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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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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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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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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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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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I had both male and female heroes.
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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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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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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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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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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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The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
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If they asked me if I wanted to go into space tomorrow, I'd do it in a heartbeat. On the other hand, if they asked me if I wanted to go into training for three years and then go into space again, I'd probably say no.
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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 space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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