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I did not come to NASA to make history.

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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
Astronaut
Astrophysicist
Physicist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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Sally Kristen Ride
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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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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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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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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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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That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.
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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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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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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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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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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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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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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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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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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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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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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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I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.
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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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