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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.

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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
Astronaut
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LA
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Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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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 space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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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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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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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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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I had both male and female heroes.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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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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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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