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I love the John Glenn model ... I may call NASA in 25 years or so, and see if they'd like to send me to Mars.
— Sally Ride
It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
— Sally Ride
So I decided on science when I was in college.
— Sally Ride
We need to make science cool again.
— Sally Ride
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
— Sally Ride
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
— Sally Ride
You know, I go around the country a lot.
— Sally Ride
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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If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.
— Sally Ride
So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
— Sally Ride
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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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When you can feel that close to something you're used to seeing from this great distance, well, it changes a person.
— Sally Ride
The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.
— Sally Ride
I don't have any nicknames.
— Sally Ride
Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
— Sally Ride
I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
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Weightless is a great equalizer.
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The view of Earth is spectacular.
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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 fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.
— Sally Ride
I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
— Sally Ride
I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
— Sally Ride
But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
— Sally Ride
I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
— Sally Ride
I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
— Sally Ride
I had both male and female heroes.
— Sally Ride
I did not come to NASA to make history.
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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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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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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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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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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.
— Sally Ride
The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
— Sally Ride
It's too bad our society isn't further along.
— Sally Ride