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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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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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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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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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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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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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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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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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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 space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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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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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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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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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!
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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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