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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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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
Astronaut
Astrophysicist
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LA
California
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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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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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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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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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That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.
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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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