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I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.

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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
Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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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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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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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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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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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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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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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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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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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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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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The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
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I had both male and female heroes.
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For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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