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The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic. — Sally Ride

It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things. — Sally Ride

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

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life. — Sally Ride

There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy. — 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

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary. — Sally Ride

On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot. — Sally Ride

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. — 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

But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth. — Sally Ride

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis. — Sally Ride

Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space. — Sally Ride

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. — Sally Ride

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. — Sally Ride

If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys. — Sally Ride

The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming. — Sally Ride

I suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think that's very important. — Sally Ride

Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket! — Sally Ride

So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight. — Sally Ride

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing. — Sally Ride

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine. — Sally Ride

I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do. — Sally Ride

I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into. — Sally Ride

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure. — Sally Ride

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. — Sally Ride

When you can feel that close to something you're used to seeing from this great distance, well, it changes a person. — Sally Ride

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! — 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

No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. — Sally Ride

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. — Sally Ride

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds. — Sally Ride

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle. — Sally Ride

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. — Sally Ride

Our future lies with today's kids and tomorrow's space exploration. — Sally Ride

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter. — Sally Ride

Weightless is a great equalizer. — Sally Ride

The view of Earth is spectacular. — Sally Ride

The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun that I'll ever have in my life. — Sally Ride

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. — Sally Ride

The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it. — Sally Ride

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form. — Sally Ride

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. — Sally Ride

If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today. — 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

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. — Sally Ride

I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college. — Sally Ride

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. — Sally Ride

I had both male and female heroes. — Sally Ride

I did not come to NASA to make history. — Sally Ride

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. — Sally Ride

It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school. — Sally Ride

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. — Sally Ride

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth. — Sally Ride

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit. — Sally Ride

On both of my flights, everything went very well. — Sally Ride

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