Sally Ride Quotes


45 quotes:

"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."
Author: Ride Quotes Category: Girls Quotes
"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."
Author: Ride Quotes Category: Encouragement Quotes
"Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space."
Author: Ride Quotes Category: American Astronaut Quotes
"When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen."
Author: Ride Quotes Category: American Astronaut Quotes
"Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle."
Author: Ride Quotes Category: American Astronaut Quotes
"We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form."
Author: Ride Quotes Category: American Astronaut Quotes
"Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit."
Author: Ride Quotes Category: American Astronaut Quotes
"The view of Earth is spectacular."
Author: Ride Quotes Category: American Astronaut Quotes
"The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter."
Author: Ride Quotes Category: American Astronaut Quotes
"The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident."
Author: Ride Quotes Category: American Astronaut Quotes
"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."
Author: Ride Quotes Category: American Astronaut Quotes
"The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic."
Author: Ride Quotes Category: American Astronaut Quotes
"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."
Author: Ride Quotes Category: American Astronaut Quotes
"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."
Author: Ride Quotes Category: American Astronaut Quotes
"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."
Author: Ride Quotes Category: American Astronaut Quotes
"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."
Author: Ride Quotes Category: American Astronaut Quotes
"So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight."
Author: Ride Quotes Category: American Astronaut Quotes
"So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth."
Author: Ride Quotes Category: American Astronaut Quotes
"So I decided on science when I was in college."
Author: Ride Quotes Category: American Astronaut Quotes
"Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight."
Author: Ride Quotes Category: American Astronaut Quotes

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