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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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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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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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That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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 didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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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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I had both male and female heroes.
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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 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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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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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The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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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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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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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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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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