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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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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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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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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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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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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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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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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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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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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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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That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.
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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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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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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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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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