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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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I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.
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We need to make science cool again.
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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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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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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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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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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 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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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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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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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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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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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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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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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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I had both male and female heroes.
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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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