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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
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Dr Sally Kristen Ride
Sally Ride- Hawley
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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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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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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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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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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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I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.
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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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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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We need to make science cool again.
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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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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.
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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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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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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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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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