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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
Astronaut
Astrophysicist
Physicist
University Teacher
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LA
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Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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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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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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I had both male and female heroes.
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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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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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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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The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
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We need to make science cool again.
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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 didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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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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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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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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