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If they asked me if I wanted to go into space tomorrow, I'd do it in a heartbeat. On the other hand, if they asked me if I wanted to go into training for three years and then go into space again, I'd probably say no.
Sally Ride
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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
Astronaut
Astrophysicist
Physicist
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LA
California
Dr Sally Kristen Ride
Sally Ride- Hawley
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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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I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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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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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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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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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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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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 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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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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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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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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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 find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.
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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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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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