Quotes By Sally Ride
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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I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
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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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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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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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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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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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No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
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NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.
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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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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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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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It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.
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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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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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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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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 takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
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