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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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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
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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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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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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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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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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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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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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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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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I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.
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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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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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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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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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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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We need to make science cool again.
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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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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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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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