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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
Writer
LA
California
Dr Sally Kristen Ride
Sally Ride- Hawley
Sally Kristen Ride
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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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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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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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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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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 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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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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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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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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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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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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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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We need to make science cool again.
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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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If they asked me if I wanted to go into space tomorrow, I'd do it in a heartbeat. On the other hand, if they asked me if I wanted to go into training for three years and then go into space again, I'd probably say no.
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