Sally Ride Quotes
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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 when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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The view of Earth is spectacular.
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Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight.
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When you're on Earth, if you go to the top of a mountain, the stars look much brighter than they do at sea level. And because the space shuttle is above Earth's atmosphere, it's like being on a very, very high mountain. So they look brighter, but not bigger.
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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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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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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.
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When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.
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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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It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.
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The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
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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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I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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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.