Sally Ride Quotes
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I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.
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There might be very primitive life in our solar system - single-cell animals, that sort of thing. We may know the answer to that in five or ten years. There is very likely to be life in other solar systems, in planets around other stars. But we won't know about that for a long time.
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I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
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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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The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
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The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.
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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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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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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
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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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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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The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
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Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.
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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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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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One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.
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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
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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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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.