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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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
Writer
LA
California
Dr Sally Kristen Ride
Sally Ride- Hawley
Sally Kristen Ride
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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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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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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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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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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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I would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals.
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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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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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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We need to make science cool again.
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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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I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.
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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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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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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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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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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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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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I had both male and female heroes.
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