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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
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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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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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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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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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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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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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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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 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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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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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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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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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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I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.
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We need to make science cool again.
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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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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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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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