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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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More quotes by Sally Ride
The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
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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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I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.
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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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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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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I had both male and female heroes.
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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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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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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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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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If they asked me if I wanted to go into space tomorrow, I'd do it in a heartbeat. On the other hand, if they asked me if I wanted to go into training for three years and then go into space again, I'd probably say no.
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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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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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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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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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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