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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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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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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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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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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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The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
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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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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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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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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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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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The best advice I can give anybody is to try to understand who you are and what you want to do, and don't be afraid to go down that road and do whatever it takes and work as hard as you have to work to achieve that.
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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 even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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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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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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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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We need to make science cool again.
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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