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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
Astronaut
Astrophysicist
Physicist
University Teacher
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LA
California
Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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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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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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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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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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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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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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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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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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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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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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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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We need to make science cool again.
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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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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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