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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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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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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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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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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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I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.
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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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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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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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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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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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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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I had both male and female heroes.
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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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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.
Sally Ride
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.
Sally Ride
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.
Sally Ride
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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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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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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We need to make science cool again.
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