Sally Ride Quotes
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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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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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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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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No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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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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Our future lies with today's kids and tomorrow's space exploration.
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That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.
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I never went into physics or the astronaut corps to become a role model. But after my first flight, it became clear to me that I was one. And I began to understand the importance of that to people. Young girls need to see role models in whatever careers they may choose, just so they can picture themselves doing those jobs someday. You can't be what you can't see.
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I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.
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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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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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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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We need to make science cool again.
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Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!
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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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I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.
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Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
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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 best advice I can give anybody is to try to understand who you are and what you want to do, and don't be afraid to go down that road and do whatever it takes and work as hard as you have to work to achieve that.
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So I decided on science when I was in college.
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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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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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Everywhere I go I meet girls and boys who want to be astronauts and explore space, or they love the ocean and want to be oceanographers, or they love animals and want to be zoologists, or they love designing things and want to be engineers. I want to see those same stars in their eyes in 10 years and know they are on their way!
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There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences.
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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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If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.
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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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