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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
Sally Ride- Hawley
Sally Kristen Ride
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We need to make science cool again.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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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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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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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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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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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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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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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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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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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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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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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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 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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I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.
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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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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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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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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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