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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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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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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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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 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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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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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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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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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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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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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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I had both male and female heroes.
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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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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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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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We need to make science cool again.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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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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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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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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