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I did not come to NASA to make history.
Sally Ride
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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
Astronaut
Astrophysicist
Physicist
University Teacher
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California
Dr Sally Kristen Ride
Sally Ride- Hawley
Sally Kristen Ride
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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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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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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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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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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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Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.
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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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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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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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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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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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