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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

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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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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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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 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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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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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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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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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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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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That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.
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We need to make science cool again.
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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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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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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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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.
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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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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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