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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
Astronaut
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LA
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Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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I suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think that's very important.
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We need to make science cool again.
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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 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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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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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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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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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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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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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.
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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 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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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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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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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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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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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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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