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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 did not come to NASA to make history.
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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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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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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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I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.
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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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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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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 would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals.
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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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.
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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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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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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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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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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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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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