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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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I had both male and female heroes.
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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 both of my flights, everything went very well.
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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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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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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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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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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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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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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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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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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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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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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 did not come to NASA to make history.
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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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