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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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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
Astronaut
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LA
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Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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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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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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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 slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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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 takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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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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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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 think maybe it's too bad that our society isn't further along and this is such a big deal. I think it's time...that people realize that women in this country can do any job they want to do.
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I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.
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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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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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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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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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