Sally Ride Quotes

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

Scary, Adventures, Territory

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.
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Stars, Bigger, Brighter

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

Good, Job, Important

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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Sleep, Around, Easy

But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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Down, Working, Looking

I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.
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Space, Running, Olympics

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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Life, Why, Start

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.
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Physics, Engineer, Mission

For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
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Science, Teacher, Parents

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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Time, After, Put

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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School, High, Space

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
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Science, Interested, Physical

So I decided on science when I was in college.
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Science, College, Decided

Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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Woman, Special, American

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
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Hero, Player, King

Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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Sleep, Different, Ways

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.
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Same, Though, Practice

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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Time, Women, Society

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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Time, Women, Quite

I did not come to NASA to make history.
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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
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End, Wanted, College

I don't have any nicknames.
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I had both male and female heroes.
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Both, Heroes, Female

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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Work, Done, Sense

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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Life, Movie, Television

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Astronaut

Born: May 26, 1951

Died: July 23, 2012

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