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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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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
Astronaut
Astrophysicist
Physicist
University Teacher
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LA
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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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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 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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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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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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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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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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The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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I had both male and female heroes.
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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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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