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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
Sally Ride
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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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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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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 would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals.
Sally Ride
The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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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 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 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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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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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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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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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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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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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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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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We need to make science cool again.
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I had both male and female heroes.
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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.
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I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
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