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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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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
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Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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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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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 didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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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We need to make science cool again.
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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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The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
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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 did not come to NASA to make history.
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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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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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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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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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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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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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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 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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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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