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Sally Ride
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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
Astronaut
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Physicist
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LA
California
Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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The best advice I can give anybody is to try to understand who you are and what you want to do, and don't be afraid to go down that road and do whatever it takes and work as hard as you have to work to achieve that.
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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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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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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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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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I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.
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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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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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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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I had both male and female heroes.
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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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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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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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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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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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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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We need to make science cool again.
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