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If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.
Sally Ride
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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
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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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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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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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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 space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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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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The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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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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That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.
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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 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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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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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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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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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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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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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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