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We need to make science cool again.

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Sally Ride
Age: 61 †
Born: 1951
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: July 23
Astronaut
Astrophysicist
Physicist
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Dr Sally Kristen Ride
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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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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 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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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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I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.
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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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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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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 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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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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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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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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You know, I go around the country a lot.
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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 astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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