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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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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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LA
California
Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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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 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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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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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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 space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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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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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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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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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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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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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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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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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 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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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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