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That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.
Sally Ride
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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
Sally Ride- Hawley
Sally Kristen Ride
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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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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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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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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If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.
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I had both male and female heroes.
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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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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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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
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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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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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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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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 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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