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You know, I go around the country a lot.

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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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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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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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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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We need to make science cool again.
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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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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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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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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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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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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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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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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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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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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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 find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.
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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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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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