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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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
California
Dr Sally Kristen Ride
Sally Ride- Hawley
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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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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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If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.
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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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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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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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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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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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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 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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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, and as someone who took risks along the way in order to achieve her goals.
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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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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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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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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