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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
Astronaut
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Physicist
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LA
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Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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I had both male and female heroes.
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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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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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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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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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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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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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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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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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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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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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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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I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.
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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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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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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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