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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
Astronaut
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Physicist
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LA
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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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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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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 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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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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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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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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That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.
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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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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 find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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We need to make science cool again.
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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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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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 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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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 slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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