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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
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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 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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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 can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.
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I had both male and female heroes.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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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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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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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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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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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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When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.
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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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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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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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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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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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