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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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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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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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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 was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
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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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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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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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The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
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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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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.
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