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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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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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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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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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We need to make science cool again.
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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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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.
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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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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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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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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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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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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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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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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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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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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