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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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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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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.
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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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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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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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We need to make science cool again.
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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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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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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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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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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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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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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 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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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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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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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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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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