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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
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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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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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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I think maybe it's too bad that our society isn't further along and this is such a big deal. I think it's time...that people realize that women in this country can do any job they want to do.
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I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.
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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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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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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 pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.
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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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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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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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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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For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
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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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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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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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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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