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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
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LA
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Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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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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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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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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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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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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If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.
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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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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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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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We need to make science cool again.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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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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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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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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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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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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