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Weightless is a great equalizer.

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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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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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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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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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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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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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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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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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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 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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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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That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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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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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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I had both male and female heroes.
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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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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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