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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.
Sally Ride
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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
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We need to make science cool again.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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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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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 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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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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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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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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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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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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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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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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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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