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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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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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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 takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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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 slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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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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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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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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I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.
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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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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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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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That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.
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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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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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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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