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I had both male and female heroes.

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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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The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
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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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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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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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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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We need to make science cool again.
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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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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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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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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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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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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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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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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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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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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 find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.
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