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The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
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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LA
California
Dr Sally Kristen Ride
Sally Ride- Hawley
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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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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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I had both male and female heroes.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think that's very important.
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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 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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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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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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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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I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.
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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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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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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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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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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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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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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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