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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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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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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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The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
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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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We need to make science cool again.
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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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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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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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I had both male and female heroes.
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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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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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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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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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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.
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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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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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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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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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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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