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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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Sally Kristen Ride
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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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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 when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.
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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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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.
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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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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 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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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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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The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
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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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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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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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I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.
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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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The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.
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