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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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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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I think maybe it's too bad that our society isn't further along and this is such a big deal. I think it's time...that people realize that women in this country can do any job they want to do.
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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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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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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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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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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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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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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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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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The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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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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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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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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