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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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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
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Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.
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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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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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NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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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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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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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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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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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 can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.
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The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
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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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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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