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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
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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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 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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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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After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
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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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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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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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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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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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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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We need to make science cool again.
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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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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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The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
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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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