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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.
Sally Ride
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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
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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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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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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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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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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The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
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I had both male and female heroes.
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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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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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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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If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.
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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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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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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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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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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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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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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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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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