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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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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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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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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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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.
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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 didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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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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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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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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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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We need to make science cool again.
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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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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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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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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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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