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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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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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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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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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My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.
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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 find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.
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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 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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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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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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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
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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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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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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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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 space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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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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