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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.

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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
Astronaut
Astrophysicist
Physicist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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Sally Kristen Ride
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Space
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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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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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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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I suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think that's very important.
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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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That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.
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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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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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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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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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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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