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The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.

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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
Astronaut
Astrophysicist
Physicist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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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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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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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.
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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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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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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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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 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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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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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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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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I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.
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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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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 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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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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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 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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