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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
California
Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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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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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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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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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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If they asked me if I wanted to go into space tomorrow, I'd do it in a heartbeat. On the other hand, if they asked me if I wanted to go into training for three years and then go into space again, I'd probably say no.
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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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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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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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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.
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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.
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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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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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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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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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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