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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
Writer
LA
California
Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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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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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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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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I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.
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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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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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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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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 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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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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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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 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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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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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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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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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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