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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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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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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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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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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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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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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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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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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 are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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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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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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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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The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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