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That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.
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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
Astronaut
Astrophysicist
Physicist
University Teacher
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LA
California
Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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We need to make science cool again.
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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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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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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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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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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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I had both male and female heroes.
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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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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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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 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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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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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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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 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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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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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The best advice I can give anybody is to try to understand who you are and what you want to do, and don't be afraid to go down that road and do whatever it takes and work as hard as you have to work to achieve that.
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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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