Sally Ride Quotes
45 Sally Ride quotes:
"It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission."
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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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"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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"The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident."
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"The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter."
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"All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary."
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"Different astronauts sleep in different ways."
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"If girls are interested, they have the potential to go further, ... There are still lingering stereotypes that affect girls in middle school, and they lose interest in the subjects."
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"But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth."
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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 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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"No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents."
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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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"So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight."
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"The view of Earth is spectacular."
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"I had both male and female heroes."
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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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"I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle."
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"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!"
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"On both of my flights, everything went very well."
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