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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.
Sally Ride
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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
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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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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.
Sally Ride
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 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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Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.
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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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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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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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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.
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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 find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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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 didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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