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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
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LA
California
Dr Sally Kristen Ride
Sally Ride- Hawley
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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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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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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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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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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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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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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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 slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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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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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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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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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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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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