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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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LA
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Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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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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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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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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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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I had both male and female heroes.
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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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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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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The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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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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We need to make science cool again.
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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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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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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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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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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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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