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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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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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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 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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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 slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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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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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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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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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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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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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.
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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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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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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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 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 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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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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