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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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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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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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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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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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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 suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think that's very important.
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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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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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We need to make science cool again.
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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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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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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 rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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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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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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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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